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 …

Your own cakephp file-browser for ckeditor: part 3 – youtube videos

Here we are. The basics are still the same of the first part – making you own file explorer popup and using CKEditor.insertHtml to inject the desired generated code into ckeditor. Of course, the same may be applied to webservices; including data form external sources is not harder than inserting …

Your own cakephp file-browser for ckeditor: part 2 – images

In the previous post we have seen the magic of the CKEDITR.insertHtml method, and how we can use it to avoid the whole file manager thing. The first popup was used to insert files with links to download. Embedding images (thumbnails with link to full version) is easy too. The …

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 …