milesjohnson

The AutoLogin component has upgraded major versions from 2.2 (CakePHP 1.3) to 3.0 (CakePHP 2), now 3.1. Since this is not a backwards compatible change, the 2.0 version can only be used in CakePHP 2. During the conversion process, many things had to change to support the new AuthComponent. Continue reading...

The AjaxHandler component has upgraded major versions from 1.6 (CakePHP 1.3) to 2.0 (CakePHP 2). Since this is not a backwards compatible change, the 2.0 version can only be used in CakePHP 2. Continue reading...

I'm quite ashamed. I work constantly on all my PHP codebases for myself and everyone that uses them... but... I rarely update my actual documentation. After multiple emails from frustrated developers letting me know my docs make no sense and are quite outdated, I went on an update spree. Continue reading...

For over a year now I have been eager to redo the backend (built on CakePHP) of this site. I kept putting it off, until last week when I was fixing bugs that I realized it would be more beneficial to just rebuild the whole site. I wanted to redo both the PHP and the database tables, as the old tables were from a previous installation. Continue reading...

The HtmlHelper has been an amazing convenience by automatically building my anchor links, by creating images with the correct path, or linking my CSS from within separate views, and much much more. But why do all this when you can simply write the HTML yourself? Continue reading...