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Excellent HTML table helper

May 5, 2008 vladko

If your application requires to display a lot of data from the DB, then I suggest you take a look at this nice, little HTML

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CSS files and $scripts_for_layout

May 5, 2008 vladko

You probably know that if you have $scripts_for_layout in your site’s layout, then you can include JS files from the view. For example, if you’d like

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Fatten up your Models

May 5, 2008 vladko

CakePHP models, unlike super models should be fat. It’s a good practice to keep redundant code out of your controllers. Here’s a quick example on

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Do I have any errors in my form?

May 5, 2008 vladko

A nice little trick to check if you have some errors in the view is to use the $session object. Try this (in the view):

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You gotta love… Bindable behavior

May 5, 2008 vladko

Update: as of 05/18/2008 there is a new core Containable behavior, which is an evolution of a few previous behaviors, including Bindable. If you are

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A cleaner way to send emails

May 5, 2008 vladko

CakePHP 1.2 provides a very easy way to send emails using the built-in Email component. However, sending emails directly from your User’s controller add action, for

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Use app controller to keep static list data

May 5, 2008 vladko

In the past I’ve often kept some data such as a list of states or countries in the DB and used that to populate my

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Styling the paginator links

May 5, 2008 vladko

A little trick to make your paginator links look pretty… Add a ‘class’ option to your paginator links like so: [sourcecode language=’php’]

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Default helpers

May 5, 2008 vladko

Just a little tip… In CakePHP 1.2 (at least the recent versions) Form and Html helpers are included by default. Therefore you can save yourself some

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Goodbye vendor()

May 5, 2008 vladko

Looks like in the recent versions of CakePHP 1.2 the use of the vendor() method has been deprecated. Instead you are supposed to use App::import().

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