Ever wanted custom options in a dropdown for your model? Let’s say you have a table called “posts” with a column called “status” and you want the following values: Published, Draft, Archived.
The way the form helper looks at options is like an array, where the array key is the option value, and the array value [...]

CakePHP 1.2 stable has now been officially released! Check it out along with a list of features 1.2 has to offer.

The Cake team has just released RC 4 for the CakePHP 1.2 release. Looks like many bugs were fixed and we’re very close to seeing stable released in the near future.
Don’t forget to donate to the CakePHP team for all their hard work in maintaining this great framework.

If you’re not satisfied with the way Cake’s flash method works, you can easily override it in your AppController class. At the moment, the default flash method takes you to a blank page only displaying the flash message. You are then redirected to the redirect url you provided. The way I prefer flash to work [...]

The cake team is working rather quickly. They have released Cake 1.2 release candidate 2 on June 27th. Time to upgrade once again! The goodness just keeps coming.

CakePHP RC1 was released on June 4th. At the moment I haven’t had much time to play with it as I wrap up a few projects using 1.2 beta. One thing I did notice was their inclusion of the Containable Behaviour. This is a powerful behaviour that helps in limiting the data you want to [...]

I’ve posted this up at the bakery, but articles seem to take awhile to get published. It could also be that they’re working on a new ACL Behavior, one can hope. For the time being, I’ve fixed up the core behavior and added a few features as well. I’ll just replicate here what I wrote [...]

First and foremost, happy holidays everyone. T’is the season of giving and that’s just what CakePHP has done. On christmas day, CakePHP has released version 1.2.0.4206_dev and what a release it was! Although I have to try out these new promised features, I really like what the cake team has done. They have addressed some [...]

Here’s a pretty good article that Christine Anderssen of webpronews.com wrote on choosing cakePHP framework over other frameworks available out there.
The point is, the web developer is now really spoilt for choice. Which is a problem in itself, since having too much choice can leave you dithering between different options. This article is therefore [...]

A few months ago I decided to take my php programming to a whole new level and try a framework. There were a few that captured my interest. Symfony, Code Igniter, and CakePHP. I experimented with all 3. I really liked Code Igniter and CakePHP. Code Igniter seems to be very well documented which I [...]