milesjohnson

Many of you have heard me mention a component that keeps your Auth session active, even after the browser is closed. Well I think its time to officially announce it, my AutoLogin component. This component ties into the Auth component and allows a user to "remember me" to keep them constantly logged in. Continue reading...

Well its been a while since I have posted anything useful, and im sorry for the lack of activity. I actually have many post ideas up on my whiteboard, its just that I have been extremely busy lately. Tomorrow I will be going on a week long cruise to Canada, so I have been preparing for that all week. Besides preparing for my trip, I have been working on two of my own websites, I will review them both below. Both of which are CakePHP applications... for your information, hah. Continue reading...

While working on a project of mine, I wanted to be able to do a search, but have the post data be retained as named parameters (basically like a $_GET string). My first attempt was setting the form method to get, and trying to convert the $_GET by doing some mod_rewrite magic. This didn't work out at all, mainly because I couldn't get it to work for multiple named parameters. The only alternative I found was suggested by someone in the Google groups; they suggested posting a form to another action to deal with the logic, and finally redirect applying named parameters. This works perfectly, albeit adding an extra step in the process. Continue reading...

When I first started using CakePHP, I couldn't find a way to pre-populate a form with data. Why would I need this you ask? Well its simple, it would be used to edit something already existent. So what I need to do is grab the data from the database, and then populate the form. Took me a few hours to figure out how to do it, the guide really didn't explain how it should be done (or I just overlooked it). To have the data populate, all you need to do is to set $this->data to the database result. Continue reading...

Commentia v1.2 is now official released. This version comes with a settings system, in which you define in the model instead of editing the file manually. Continue reading...