CakePHP 1.3 helps with team-based development workflow…

I do have to say that in 1.2 some of the features described here are available as well, however CakePHP 1.3 takes it slightly to the next level to make team-based development even easier… With SVN or Git it is already easy enough to…

Simplistic example of row-level access control with Auth, Security and App Model in CakePHP

Let me just preface this post, by saying that this is indeed a very much simplified example.
The main purpose here is not to provide a solution that will fit any application…

Save now, sanitize later…

Good discussion came up on IRC today, regarding sanitizing of the data.

I’d like to clear up a little confusion and hopefully set the record straight on the sanitizing of data.

A deeper look at working with CakePHP shells

CakePHP shells are very useful, whenever one needs to extends the functionality of the application to be used in the console (or from command line). Besides the built-in CakePHP shells, like “bake” and “schema”, anyone can very easily extend their own…

Another way to think about MVC

This is just a simple intro post to the concepts of MVC. It is intended for those who are starting to grasp the basics, but are having a bit of a hard time understanding some of the rules and concepts.