milesjohnson

The other day I spent way too many hours trying to figure out CakePHPs built in CSS and JS compression system. To say the least, its not really built in, you have to configure and do a lot of it yourself. I did much searching and found tutorials that didn't work, or using custom built helpers that were of no use, and in the end I wrote my own script (based off webroot/css.php written by gwoo). Continue reading...

If you have developed with the Auth Component at all, you would know by now that the Auth session does not refresh when ever a user updates its information (such a drawback). This is extremely useful in many situations, especially when a user updates his profile, and you need to echo the new content in the views. I have written the following method, which should be placed in your App Controller. 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...

In some cases, you want to grab extra data in the find() method by calling an SQL statement like COUNT() AS, or SELECT(). When you do this, your extra data is not nested in the Model index of your resulted array. Here's how to fix that problem. Continue reading...

When I first started using CakePHP, I never used the Session->setFlash() method to display success or error messages. I never used it because I was under the impression that flash messages were automatically redirected if debug is turned off, but this only applies to the controllers flash(). So I started to use and understand setFlash(), and here are my findings. Continue reading...