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CakePHP URL Shortener Service Tutorial

08.26.09 // CakePHP // (5) // 2,720 views

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 out a basic tutorial which will give you an understanding [...]

My CakePHP Learning Experience

07.07.09 // CakePHP // (6) // 101 views

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 Python, Django, what a framework was, what MVC was and [...]

CakePHP: Using Apress & Packt

02.22.09 // CakePHP // (0) // 67 views

I love buying books. Taking one look at my bookcase makes this quite obvious. I do have quite a large selection of computer related books. I find that by reading into the subject matter, especially for programming, before acting on ideas or tasks provides a person with the tools and knowledge to get stuff done. [...]

Using CakePHP Elements & RequestAction

02.17.09 // CakePHP // (1) // 608 views

This problem arose while i was trying to get a random phrase from a database into the <title> HTML elements across all views. Being fairly new to CakePHP i was overwhelmed by some people’s solutions to accessing models site wide. However they forgot what CakePHP is based on, MVC. Breaking this system will leave you [...]