CakePOWER allows you to add a virtual version name to all your assets:
// app/Config/core.php
Configure::write('Asset.version', '1.0.3');
Every assets url created through CakePHP helpers will be postfixed with that version string:
<script src="/js/foo.js?v=1.0.3" />
<link href="/css/foo.css?v=1.0.3" />
You should manually change version’s string whenever you upload new version of your assets forcing all clients to download new copy of libraries, stylesheets, images, etc!
For my new project (MameliCMS) I use a Dropbox plugin for CakePHP: Cakebox.
This plugin helps you to authenticate to Dropbox REST services and to obtain an authorization token to play with Dropbox REST API.
In this post I will (in far future) write a small tutorial to that plugin!
Managing your database should be a problem.
cPanel, phpMyAdmin are very difficult to install and you need to remember configurations or access you database.php file to read from.
Adminer is a one file db manager for MySQL and I wrote a simple webroot package to automatize loggin-in action reading from your App/Config/datavase.php file.
Markdown Plugin for CakePHP provides a MarkdownHelper to parse Markdown source code plus an integration
with views rendering engine to automagically render views as Markdown source files.
Today I would like to share with you a really simple problem about model validation.
What to do if you need to share some custom validation logic between multiple models?
Few days ago I spend about an hour on a very strange strange bug relating to usages of debug() utility.
I was implementing a CakeEventListener on a very simple controller.
I was thinking it was a bug… but it was just a consequence of CakePHP lazy-load initialization behavior!
In my authentication based project I have an Account Settings panel who allow authenticated user to change some profile data like e-mail, language and country.
All things works fine with CakePHP Model’s save() method but AuthComponent still provide old values because it stores user’s data into CakePHP SessionComponent at login time.
The problem is that when an authenticated user updates it’s profile then he need to logout then login to update session’s data.
Today I was playing with BackboneJS save/destroy methods on data models.
My JS app was binded to a MySQL db by a CakePHP (CakePower) REST layer so I have a controller implementing the CRUD methods.
This controller sends notifications using the CakePower notification system but I found a problem with this interface: no error http status was given to the response!
// the simple CakePower error notification:
$this->Session->error( 'user not found' );
This code drives standard CakePHP requests (forms, links) setting up a flashMessage, ajax and REST requests setting up a JSON response object.
The problem was all responses was given with the 200 HTTP Status code! This was a very bad mistake!
If errors was found in controller’s logic then HTTP Status needs to be configured according to the error: 404 if resource was not found or, at least, a generic 500 – Internal Server Error.
The real world problem was that with 200 response status jQuery::ajax()’s error callback was never thrown!
BackboneJS Model::destroy() method implements an automation to remove destroyed model from related collections… But this automation fails without correct HTTP status!
NOW THIS BUG IS FIXED AND ALL THINGS WORKS FINE!
Default HTTP Status is 200 for: message(), confirm(), warning() methods and 404 for error() method.
You can customize this information with the status option:
$this->error( 'bad request!', null, array( 'status'=>400 ) );
$this->confirm( 'updated!', null, array( 'status'=>204 ) );
Have a nice developing experience with CakePower and BackboneJS!
When performing actions like “find something”, “save something”, “do something” you often need to inform about results just like: “ok, done!” or “ko, errors found!”.
CakePHP let you set a flash message then (optional) redirect wherever you need to but I think this is not enough!
CakePower introduces the concept of “state response” to solve this problem.
CakePower extends CakePHP’s HtmlHelper without change it’s API. This way you can enjoy powerful functionalities without to change helper names in your sources.
$p1 = $this->Html->tag( 'p', 'content of first P' ); $p2 = $this->Html->tag( 'p', 'content of second P', array( 'class'=>'second' )); echo $this->Html->tag( 'div', $p1.$p2, array( 'class'=>'container' ));
echo $this->Html->tag(array( 'name' => 'div', 'class' => 'container', 'content' => array( array( 'name' => 'p', 'content' => 'content of first P' ),array( 'name' => 'p', 'class' => 'second', 'content' => 'content of second P' ) ) ));
I was born in 1981 in Italy. I love Italy except for it's government.
I'm a web engineer. I play with MVC and AOP both on server and client side. I love CakePHP, jQuery, BackboneJS, LessCSS and HTML5. I'm looking for quality over low-cost but I didn't found out it yet (in Italy)!
I'm learning to fly with a VDS licence, I love mountains, hiking and biking into nature.
I love Silvia, my marvellous wife.
We plan to have a baby quite soon!
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