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Super Awesome AdvancedCakePHP Tips
This book is available f or free at http://www.pseudocoder.com/free-cakephp-book
Version 1.1
By Matt Currypseudocoder.comtwitter.com/mcurrymatt@pseudocoder.comWith Contributions FromMark Storymark-story.com twitter.com/mark_story
Super Awesome Advanced CakePHP Tips byMatt Curryis licensed under aCreative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.CakePHP is a registered trademark of theCake Software Foundation (http://cakefoundation.org)2
Contents
Who Should Read This Book ..........................................................................................................................6
How to Read This Book .............................................................................................................................................6
How to Learn CakePHP..................................................................................................................................7
The Paid Way.............................................................................................................................................................7The Free Way.............................................................................................................................................................8After you’ve done Either/Both Of The Above.........................................................................................................8
Models...............................................................................................................................................................9
Recursion....................................................................................................................................................................9Containable Behavior................................................................................................................................................9Why You Should Use It.............................................................................................................................................9This Will Catch Everyone At Least Once..............................................................................................................10
Custom Find Types........................................................................................................................................11
The Unofficial Cake Way........................................................................................................................................11My Way....................................................................................................................................................................12Comparison..............................................................................................................................................................14App Model................................................................................................................................................................15
Getting the Logged In User from Anywhere...............................................................................................16
The User Model.......................................................................................................................................................16In The AppController..............................................................................................................................................17Back to the User Model...........................................................................................................................................17Usage.........................................................................................................................................................................18What About The Configure Class?........................................................................................................................18Full Source...............................................................................................................................................................19
Automatically Tracking Created/Modified By............................................................................................20
Database...................................................................................................................................................................20Model Relations.......................................................................................................................................................20Model beforeValidate Callback ..............................................................................................................................20Behavior beforeValidate Callback .........................................................................................................................20The Full Behavior....................................................................................................................................................21
Routing............................................................................................................................................................22
Case Insensitive........................................................................................................................................................22
Unit Testing....................................................................................................................................................23
Views.........................................................................................................................................................................23
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Sections
« prev | next »- Who Should Read This Book
- How to Read This Book
- How to Learn CakePHP
- The Paid Way
- The Free Way
- After you’ve done Either/Both Of The Above
- Models
- Recursion
- Containable Behavior
- Why You Should Use It
- This Will Catch Everyone At Least Once
- Custom Find Types
- The Unofficial Cake Way
- My Way
- Comparison
- App Model
- Getting the Logged In User from Anywhere
- The User Model
- In The AppController
- Back to the User Model
- Usage
- What About The Configure Class?
- Full Source
- Automatically Tracking Created/Modified By
- Database
- Model Relations
- Model beforeValidate Callback
- Behavior beforeValidate Callback
- The Full Behavior
- Routing
- Case Insensitive
- Unit Testing
- Views
- Setting Up The Files
- Setting Up The Test Class
- Standard Index View
- Creating The View Test
- Testing the Rendered View
- Controllers
- Doing Things the Hard Way
- Testing A Controller Method
- Making assertions
- Mock Objects
- What is a Mock Object
- Where can I get one of these fabulous devices?
- Makings expectations with Mock Objects
- Test Case
- Fixtures
- Merging Add and Edit Actions
- The Controller
- Telling Add And Edit Apart
- The View
- Cake Tricks from The Core
- Cake Style $options Parameter
- Handling Data Arrays with a Single Record or an Array of Records
- Stupid Easy URL Slugs
- Making The Slugs A Bit Smarter
- Changing The Underscore To A Hyphen
- Consistency And SEO Improvements
- jQuery
- Replacing $javascript->event()
- Replacing $ajax->link()
- Expanding Trees With jQuery
- Basic Tree
- TreeHelper
- TreeHelper With jQuery
- Cleaning Up the Images
- JavaScript In Views
- Make Your Cake App Fast
- Don't Use $uses Unless You Really, Absolutely Have To
- Model Chains
- Controller::loadModel and ClassRegistry::init
- Use Containable
- Set Debug to 0
- Cache your slow queries/web service requests/whatever
- View Caching
- HTML Caching
- APC (or some other opcode cache)
- Persistent Models
- Store The Persistent Cache in APC
- Speed Up Reverse Routing
- Unchain Your Models
- The Giant Configuration, Version Control and Deployment Section
- Version Control
- Multiple Environments
- Deployment
- Debug
- Cache
- Alternate Methods
- CakePHP Reserved Classes
- From The Bakery (And Other Places)
- Behaviors
- Sluggable
- Soft Deletable
- Linkable
- Plugins
- DebugKit
- NamedScope
- Helpers
- Asset
- Jquery Validation
- HtmlCache
- Copyright
- Revisions
- V1.0 – May 13, 2009
- V1.1 – May 15, 2009
- V1.2 – June 12, 2009
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