Filtering results returned by Containable behavior

First of all, let me warn you that what I’m describing here is more or less a hack and is not the most efficient way of handling such things, especially if you are dealing with large volumes of data. It is really here for educational purposes…

‘fields’, ‘conditions’ and associated models in CakePHP 1.2

Sometimes you see code that tries to do something like this:

[cc lang=”php”]
$this->Company->find(‘all’, array(‘conditions’ =>array(‘Profile.name’=>’test’),
 ‘fields’=>array(‘Profile.id…

Dynamic menus without requestAction() in CakePHP 1.2

You’ve probably heard time and time again (especially in a few recent and popular blog posts) that using requestAction() is, generally speaking, considered to be a “bad practice”, “last resort”, “hackish” way of doing things in cake.

notEmpty validation rule

With the recent changeset (https://trac.cakephp.org/changeset/7399) a new, ‘notEmpty’, validation rule is now available. As you can guess, it checks to make sure that a field contains something other than a white space.

Automagical selects or checkboxes

A quick example of some automagic goodness…

Let’s say we need to to build an “add Post” form and allow the user to pick some tags for the Post.

Dealing with errors in CakePHP

Chances are if your app is already out in production, you have your debug level set to ‘0’. This is probably good news, since the users will not be seeing any nasty errors and in the worst case, they’ll see a blank page or a ‘not found’ page in case of an application error…

Controller makeover (from ugly to beautiful)

Let’s take a controller ridden with problems and see how we can improve it. Hopefully this little experiment can help you beautify your code and optimize your app…