Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Authentication
Chapter 2: Model Bindings
Chapter 3: Pushing the Search
Chapter 4: Validation and Behaviors
Chapter 5: Datasources
Chapter 6: Routing Magic
Chapter 7: Creating and Consuming Web Services
Chapter 8: Working with Shells
Chapter 9: Internationalizing Applications
Chapter 10: Testing
Chapter 11: Utility Classes and Tools
Index
- Chapter 1: Authentication
- Introduction
- Setting up a basic authentication system
- Using and configuring the Auth component
- Allowing logins with username or e-mail
- Saving the user details after login
- Getting the current user's information
- Using prefixes for role-based access control
- Setting up Access Control Layer-based authentication
- Integrating with OpenID
- Chapter 2: Model Bindings
- Introduction
- Adding Containable to all models
- Limiting the bindings returned in a find
- Modifying binding parameters for a find
- Modifying binding conditions for a find
- Changing the JOIN type of one-to-one associations
- Defining multiple associations to the same model
- Adding bindings on the fly
- Chapter 3: Pushing the Search
- Introduction
- Performing GROUP and COUNT queries
- Using virtual fields
- Building queries with ad-hoc JOINs
- Searching for all items that match search terms
- Implementing a custom find type
- Paginating a custom find type
- Implementing AJAX based pagination
- Chapter 4: Validation and Behaviors
- Introduction
- Adding multiple validation rules
- Creating a custom validation rule
- Using callbacks in behaviors
- Using behaviors to add new fields for saving
- Using the Sluggable behavior
- Geocoding addresses with the Geocodable behavior
- Chapter 5: Datasources
- Introduction
- Improving the SQL datasource query log
- Parsing CSV files with a datasource
- Consuming RSS feeds with a datasource
- Building a Twitter datasource
- Adding transaction and locking support to the MySQL datasource
- Chapter 6: Routing Magic
- Introduction
- Using named and GET parameters
- Using routes with prefixes
- Working with route elements
- Adding catch-all routes for profile pages
- Adding validation for catch-all routes
- Creating custom Route classes
- Chapter 7: Creating and Consuming Web Services
- Introduction
- Creating an RSS feed
- Consuming a JSON service
- Building REST services with JSON
- Adding authentication to REST services
- Implementing token-based authorization for API access
- Chapter 8: Working with Shells
- Introduction
- Building and running a shell
- Parsing command line parameters
- Creating reusable shell tasks
- Sending e-mails from shells
- Non-interactive tasks with the robot plugin
- Chapter 9: Internationalizing Applications
- Introduction
- Internationalizing controller and view texts
- Internationalizing model validation messages
- Translating strings with dynamic content
- Extracting and translating text
- Translating database records with the Translate behavior
- Setting and remembering the language
- Chapter 10: Testing
- Introduction
- Setting up the test framework
- Creating fixtures and testing model methods
- Testing controller actions and their views
- Using mocks to test controllers
- Running tests from the command line
- Chapter 11: Utility Classes and Tools
- Introduction
- Working with the Set class
- Manipulating strings with the String class
- Sending an e-mail
- Detecting file types with MagicDb
- Throwing and handling exceptions
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