CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. It uses commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm.
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PHP Framework Decision - Analysis paralysis! [closed]
OK, sorry in advance for the length of this question!
I've spent ages reading about the pros and cons of all the major PHP Frameworks (i.e. Zend, CakePHP, Symfony, CodeIgniter, etc., etc.). I've also ...
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Best way to parse bbcode
I'd like to work on a bbcode filter for a php website. (I'm using cakephp, it would be a bbcode helper)
I have some requirement.
Bbcodes can be nested. So something like that is valid.
[block]
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To Use a PHP Framework or Not?
I've started writing a few applications in PHP, and I'm becoming more familiar with the language. Someone told me about CakePHP, and CodeIgniter. I wanted to get a better understanding of how these ...
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Fat models, skinny controllers and the MVC design pattern
I just read a blog post that explains MVC with a banking analogy. I have a few months of experience with web application development with an MVC framework (CakePHP), so I get the basics, but I began ...
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How to “Validate” Human Names in CakePHP?
I have a PHP script that is supposed to check for "valid" human names, but recently cracked against a name with a space, so we added spaces to our validator.
Rather than doing this, is there a way to ...
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Zend Framework or CakePHP? [closed]
My group is going to attempt to build a new CMS from scratch, designed to serve the needs of our organization. It should be noted that none of us have any formal programming education, but we've ...
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Which PHP framework is closest to Ruby on Rails? CakePHP? CodeIgniter? [closed]
I'm going to be switching back and forth between Ruby on Rails projects, and some as-of-yet undecided PHP MVC framework projects. Which of the PHP MVC frameworks out there (CakePHP, CodeIgniter?, ...
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Can I use one model inside of a different model in CakePHP?
Can I use another Model inside one model?
Eg.
<?php
class Form extends AppModel
{
var $name='Form';
var $helpers=array('Html','Ajax','Javascript','Form');
var $components = array( ...
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.htaccess for cakephp
I'm trying to get a CakePHP application to work. For this, I've set up a brand new Debian installation, updated the configuration and put everything in /var/www, which has the following content:
app
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What is the equivalent to getLastInsertId() in Cakephp?
If I do getLastInsertId() immediately after a save(), it works, but otherwise it does not. This is demonstrated in my controller:
function designpage() {
//to create a form Untitled
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How to change the sequence of 'joins' in CakePHP?
I have the problem with the sequence of joins. The similar problem was in another question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3343348/manipulating-order-of-joins-in-cakephp. The answer was to use ...
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UNION syntax in Cakephp
Anyone knows a good way to make UNION query in CakePHP? I would like to avoid using $this->query();.
With two tables t1, t2:
SELECT * FROM t1
LEFT JOIN t2 ON t1.id = t2.id
UNION
SELECT * FROM t1
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CakePHP 2.1 saving HABTM fields
I have two models User and Movie.. Where those are associated with UsersWatchlist..
public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array('User' => array(
'className' => 'User',
'joinTable' => ...
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Cakephp Auth with multiple “Users” tables
I would like to know how to deal with only ONE authentification process and "users" in multiple tables. I have 4 Users table: users, admins, artists, teamadmins which all have specific fields, but I ...
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Adding a prefix to every URL in CakePHP
What's the cleanest way to add a prefix to every URL in CakePHP, like a language parameter?
http://example.com/en/controller/action
http://example.com/ru/admin/controller/action
It needs to work ...
