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Netbeans is now my prefered IDE for any web development work and works especially well with PHP frameworks such as Zend Framework, Symfony and CakePHP (although not officially supported yet).
To get syntax highlighting for CakePHP ctp files, all you need to do is
So it happens I have a website which was started as a wordpress blog but was later developed into a cakephp site.
http://www.xyzabc.com/ – inititally a wordpress blog, now a cakephp app
http://www.xyzabc.com/blog/ – becomes the new wordpress blog’s address
The challenge
How do I redirect visitors who arrive on the site through bookmarks or not-yet-updated search engine indexes so that they can land on the new wordpress blog address?
OK, I know the title of this post is a bit long, but it does put it clearly what I had been trying to achieve using CakePHP.
Let’s say you have a Product model with unique index Field1Field2 made up of 2 fields (field1 and field2) and each time you insert a new record into Product, you want to make sure that only the unique combination of field1 and field2 is saved. How would you do that?
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Upgrading a CakePHP app and found that the VALID_NOT_EMPTY rule is now deprecated in 1.3. Use notEmpty instead.
The word “slug” was probably popularized by wordpress thanks to its ability to build pretty looking urls or permalinks for all of your post title.
Cakephp has a class known as Inflector and a slug method which does the same thing to help you get a pretty looking slug for any text strings you pass into it. Here’s how.
Cakephp uses a custom extension for its view files (*.ctp in 1.2.x and *.thtml in 1.1.x). Notepad++ doesn’t recognize these files by default and thus no color coding will be presented when they are opened. The following tip enables that.
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Getting Tinymce to work in CakePHP was really easy.
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It has been almost a month since CakePHP 1.2 went stable. CakePHP 1.2 was in beta for almost 2 years and now finally a stable release. You can download it here.
CakePHP and several other popular PHP framework has been supported in PHPED since version 5. Being one of the leaders in providing PHP solutions such as the popular PHP Deugger (not to be confused with xdebug) and NuSOAP, I think that their implementation of CakePHP support is by far the best out there. There’s even a tutorial page dedicated specifically for using CakePHP in PHPED.
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Saw a couple of searches coming into my site looking for Cakephp generateList. As you can see from the cakephp cookbook, the generateList method has been deprecated in 1.2 and has now been changed to find(‘list’).
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