Posts in CakePHP

I have recently been developing a new website which has found me in the position of writing a lot of session handling code. I came across the concept of logged out all sessions across multiple instances, and out came this CakePHP session flushing component stay... [+]

So after looking over some security techniques and discovering the quite interestingly named Rainbow table password cracking mechanism I decided to look into a way around this table password cracker. The default way that CakePHP hashes its passwords into the database is via hashing from... [+]

We had implemented a caching system for all find, pagination and pagination count methods with CakePHP. You can find a post on this here. The cache was expiring after every hour, however we failed to realise something. Our CMS system that we built allows posts... [+]

A site i was working with was using pagination quite extensively with lots of records and associations. This was producing unnecessary high load on the database and wait times on the production site. Caching had to be done. Unlike normal returned data from finds etc. Paginated... [+]

As i develop new CakePHP projects i like to spin the wheel with generating a “secure” salt string to be used in core.php. Instead of just bashing my head against the keyboard hoping for some random, usable, 40 character long string, i decided to let... [+]

If you have just woken up from a 10 year long coma, you might realise that the internet has been dumbed down to 140 characters and services that offer “URL Shortening” are quite widely used. Well today, coma awakened or not, I will be writing... [+]

If you’re after a way to customise the look of your 404 pages then simply change the “/app/views/errors/error404.ctp” page. However if you were like me, and didn’t want your 404 to simply be a static page, rather redirect the user or press the red button... [+]

That’s right. It is time! It’s time to get resumé writing and hitting the pavement looking for a job! What kind of job you ask? An awesome one! I am primarily looking for something in the internet industry, if one even exists! Starting off as... [+]

I first got into CakePHP roughly 3-4 months ago. It was a result of me dropping the Python & Django books and running back to the PHP world, which I was already familiar with. I simply didn’t have the time to wrap my head around... [+]

Awesome comment about why he uses CakePHP @ http://dojo.codegreene.com/?p=148 I’ve been developing for the last 9 years. Since I got into frameworks, I can’t imagine myself one day “digging holes without a shovel”. Everyone says it’s hard to learn how to use frameworks. The fact... [+]

What this does is go through my Apache log in my MySQL DB and calculate unique hits, overall hits, amount of bandwidth used per month, and only for the past 3 months! Making sure each month begins and ends on the first and last day... [+]

Hey everyone. Not so much a tutorial here, but more so a snippet of code to help some of you out. My problem was with the CakePHP tree component. The way that the tree organised data in CakePHP works is through establishing a neighbour like... [+]

Not a very special post, however i simply wanted to make future reference for myself with my CakePHP custom regex validation for slug fields. 'slug' => array( 'RegEx' => array( 'rule' => array('custom', '/^[a-zA-Z0-9-\s_]+$/i'), 'message' => 'Slugs must only contain letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens... [+]