Win a copy of “CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook” (ebook) by Mariano Iglesias

As you can see from my review, I bought this book early, as soon as the raw version was available – and liked it. Now, 2 e-copies of the book (epub/pdf format) are kindly offered by Packt publishing. Love cake? Be the lucky winner! The rules are simple: just read …

Cakephp 1.3 Application Development Cookbook by Mariano Iglesias. The book many cakers were waiting for

I’m almost a cakephp books addict. I believe I bought every available book (well, at least those written in languages i could understand). Luckily, there are not that much to be a problem for my bank account. This is one of the reasons why I immediately got the ebook raw …

Something I should have known about Security->disabledFields

Altering values of hidden fields, and dinamically altering forms (adding / changing / removing fields) using javascript and ajax, is a common task in today’s web development. Cakephp’s Security component is evry useful for protecting our applications from some Cross Site Request Forgery – amd stopping malicious users froma altering …

This IS useful: email datasource by Kevin van Zonnerveld

Looking for a shortcut to insert contents in a cake based cms, i found Kevin van Zonnerveld’s email datasource. Originally taken from infinitas cms, although not 100% finished, it seems a great piece of code, and easy to use. Just follow the instructions on github to grab – install – …

Single query cache and pagination cache (until a future post) and ad hoc joins. An over-override of appModel::find

In a project i’m working on, being unaware of super behaviours or plugins that may appear on github, i made some search to find fast and effective solutions (or ideas) for the needs at hand. Namely, performance -> caching. Needs stacked over time. I liked the idea of single query …

Back online.. or do not mix wordpress upgrade and fantastico

A few days ago.. After an update to wp 3.0.. bye bye homepage and admin panel. Who knows why. Couldn’t  login or reach wp-admin anymore (tried almost everything. Solutions suggested in forum, blog posts, official wordpress codex, tinkering with redirectrs and htaccess, checking folder/files permissions, disable plugins, upgrade form fantastico, …

Your own cakephp file-browser for ckeditor: part 4 – flickr photos and slideshow

As we have seen in the previous post (Your own cakephp file-browser for ckeditor: part 3 – youtube videos), it’s not hard to implement a search/browser of external data sources, with the ability to embed the desired formatted media in ckeditor. Here’s a similar approach, interacting with Flickr’s API, with …