Category Archives: CakePHP

Simple Security in CakePHP

July 22, 2009 – 7:23 pm

When I started to dig in to investigate using the Security Component of CakePHP, I was a bit daunted. It took me quite a while to get my head around ACL after all. Then I found this article. Here’s the crux:
The Security component will create a hash based on the form fields produced by our [...]

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CakePHP Console ACL Help File

March 22, 2009 – 9:30 am

Every now and then I want to view my help files in pretty, formatted HTML instead of plain text in a text editor or terminal window. Right now I’m working on setting up some Access Control Lists (ACL) in the CakePHP Console. ACL is a powerful, yet sometimes hard-to-grasp concept. I always figure that if [...]

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Use Functions from Other Controllers While Maintaining MVC Architecture in CakePHP

December 10, 2008 – 5:52 pm

UPDATE (7/22/2009)
requestionAction may not be the best solution. Read this.
At my day job, I’m working on an application to keep track of specimens for our lab. A specimen is sent to the lab, then divided into aliquots which are put into boxes and stored in freezers. The previous sentence ought to give you some idea [...]

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Getting Blueprint CSS & JavaScript Libraries Into Your CakePHP Layout

November 26, 2008 – 1:55 pm

Updated 12/3/2008
The other day I wrote about getting the Blueprint CSS framework into your Wordpress theme. If you’re developing in CakePHP, it’s even easier to link multiple style sheets and JavaScript libraries to your layout file.
<?php
$css = array(‘blueprint/screen’, ‘blueprint/ie’, ’style’);
$jslibraries = array(‘prototype’, ’scriptaculous’, ‘jquery’);
echo $html->css(‘blueprint/print’, ’stylesheet’, ‘media=”print”‘);
echo $html->css($css, ’stylesheet’, ‘media=”screen, projection”’);
echo $javascript->link($jslibraries);
?>
Let’s take these one [...]

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And We’re Back!

September 22, 2008 – 2:55 pm

I have been so incredibly busy the last few months that aside for 140 character Twitter updates, I haven’t been able to keep this blog updated with my exploits.
If you are still paying attention, I was complaining about ACL. After several attempts, I gave up using the built-in ACL component in CakePHP and just decided [...]

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Wow. ACL is Hard

June 20, 2008 – 12:55 pm

That is Access Control Lists. I’ve been developing with CakePHP this spring and summer and it was all going very well until I actually needed to control access to the application. It’s not even that CakePHP falls short here. There are apparently tons of built-in tools for managing access. They’re just poorly documented and the [...]

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