ORM Designer – an answer from Inventic and the route to beta cake support

Many thanks to František Tröster – from Inventic http://www.inventic.cz With his permission, parts of his answer to my previous post are published here, with my comments, as a follow-up. I appreciate the fast and detailed answer – it shows they really care about their product, and user feedback. I’m a …

Translating the app’s interface and keeping the translation up to date: never again without poEdit and gettext

This is simple, but if you never did it some suggestion may help. Internationalization and localization of the static text in a cakephp application is fast and easy, as explained in the book. One fact that was not actually clear to me is, adding new string and updating an alredy …

Your own basic cakephp “file manager” for CK editor

Who hasn’t faced this issue at least once? There are a lot of great online html editors out there (I really like CKEditor), each one with his solution for file and image upload and management. Often, it’s not free. Sometime you don’t need a full-blown file manager. Sometime it’s simply …

A couple of cakephp newbie mistakes – Or why you always should RTFM and not always trust it

Here are two quick tips. It’ s something that made me waste some time – but an useful experience. Why it’s always wise to Read The F*****g Manual Convention over configuration is a great thing – one of the strong points behind cake’s success. It’s so natural – it almost …