Posts tagged mvc

CakePHP Rainbow Table Protection Behaviour

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... [+]

CakePHP URL Shortener Service Tutorial

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... [+]

My CakePHP Learning Experience

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... [+]

CakePHP: Using Apress & Packt

CakePHP: Using Apress & Packt

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... [+]

Using CakePHP Elements &...

Using CakePHP Elements & RequestAction

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... [+]