A good example of when you would need this is if the underlying DB does not support the SQL LIMIT syntax. This is true of IBM’s DB2. You can still use the CakePHP pagination by adding the custom query to the model.

Should you need to create custom queries to generate the data you want to paginate, you can override the paginate() and paginateCount() model methods used by the pagination controller logic.

2. CakePHP Advanced Pagination – sort by derived field

I spent a couple of hours to find out a way… and finally got it! yes it is possible to sort by derived fields using the built-in pagination feature of cakephp! Let’s talk about the solution a little later, first I’d like to introduce you with the exact problem I faced.

3. Pagination with custom find types in CakePHP

What I’m going to talk about is how to mix your custom find types with pagination, without having to use paginate and paginateCount in your models.

4. Creating Simple Ajax Pagination with CakePHP 1.3 and Mootools

Creating ajax pagination has gotten more simple and flexible for 1.3. In 1.2 you could only use the built in Ajax pagination if you were using Prototype as your javascript library. With the addition of the JsHelper you can use any Javascript library that an engine has been implemented. My example today will be using mootools. I’ll be basing this, off of a freshly baked index view using the default core templates.

5. Custom Pagination in CakePHP

To continue on last weeks thought of a “lite” forum, I needed 2 tables (Forums, Posts). Since this is a “lite” forum, I did not want to create a mid-table labeled topics, so I incorporated that in the Posts table. The other reasoning behind this, is that to create a hybrid forum/blog, the topic is really just a beginning post in the thread, so keep those in the Posts table, just mark it as a topic to differentiate this from the other posts.

6. CakePHP Part 6 – Pagination!

Pagination is something that any decent site has in it somewhere. The whole idea is to give the user pages of information to look through, instead of just listing all the data at once. Not only does this cut down on page load times, but it is also a great way to view and organize the information as well. And like always, Cake makes this task just as easy as a few lines of code.

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1. CakePHP URL Shortener Service Tutorial by JotLab

In this tutorial I will be creating this website using CakePHP 1.2.4, because it rocks, and you will think it rocks too if you haven’t used it yet! If you are unfamiliar with CakePHP please jump into it now by checking out either of these two books: Beginning CakePHP by Apress & Free CakePHP Book by Matt Curry! So let’s begin!

Now this isn’t going to be a tutorial into all the joys and wonders of CakePHP. There are simply too many to list, my database wouldn’t be able to hold so much information. However if you are new to CakePHP, all that this tutorial requires is that you have successfully set up CakePHP, wherever you may prefer. There are plenty of tutorials and guides on how to get CakePHP set up on the web. I did a quick search and found this one to be quite good, but there are plenty more out there. The most common newbie gotcha I find is making sure the .htaccess files are uploaded correctly. But with all that said and done! Let’s get going with our URL shortening website!

2. Building a URL Shortener by Jonathan Snook

With all the talk of URL shortening services, I decided to add a quick service into Snook.ca, which is run on CakePHP, to redirect a short URL to a post. Because my static content already has short URLs and all I have are posts, creating a short URL handler for it was very easy.

3. Build a URL-shortener for your app by Nuts & Bolts Of Cakephp

In order to avoid using some external service, you might want to add a simple feature to your application to provide a URL-shortener. The benefits are really simple… you’ll use your own domain name and while your app is around so will be your short-URL links.

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Comments plugin is a universal comment system that can be attached to any controller with a few lines of code. The comments plugin will allow you to make any kind of data comment-able.

How to add comments with AJAX in CakePHP

In today’s article we are going to create a very basic blog that allows people to create a post and posts comments on that post via AJAX. We are going to keep it extremely basic and just focus on that actual AJAX functionality.

CakePHP Comment Plugin

The goal of every programmer is to write as little code as possible. It can only be achieved by re-using code that you already wrote. That is why we all use CakePHP in the first place right? Fortunately, cake allows us to create plug-ins that we could just drop in into our projects and be done with it.

For quite a few of our projects, especially social applications, we had to add commenting. In addition, we typically had to allow users to comment on everything (photos, posts, news, articles, etc…).

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The popular FileUploadComponent is now a plugin. Version 4.0 brings a new behavior to the plugin to round out all your file uploading needs.

2. Uploader by miles johnson

An all around general purpose file uploader for CakePHP. Packaged as a stand alone plugin with file validation, file scanning and support for a wide range of basic mime types.

• Automatically sets all ini settings required for file uploading
• Support for a wide range of mime types: text, images, archives, audio, video, application
• Logs all internal errors that can be retrieved and displayed
• Saves a log for all uploads happening during the current request
• Automatically validates against the default mime types and internal errors
• Can scan the uploaded files for viruses using the ClamAV module
• Files can be uploaded anywhere within the webroot folder
• Convenience methods for deleting a file, moving/renaming a file and getting the file extension or dimensions
• Built in methods for resizing images and generating thumbnails
• Custom Behavior to add validation rules to your Models validation set
• Custom Behavior that allows models to attach files to automatically upload the file and save its information to a database

3.  UploadPack – easy and flexible way to upload files with CakePHP

• save procedure of record with attached file should be no different to usual record
• it should be possible to do some additional processing of uploaded file at the time of saving it (for example thumbnail generation)
• easy access to uploded file, it’s URL and alternatives (different thumnails) from view level
• everything should require no or minimum configuration to work, but still remain flexible if the whole application needs it
• natural integration with CakePHP framework.

4. Media Plugin for CakePHP by david persson

This plugin was conceived as a thorough solution to all the needs coming from dealing with media files in a web application. Moreover the idea was to show how much a well maintained plugin can be worth it and inspire others to do the same. The plugin slowly evolved (and in fact still does) from a very distinct set of tightly coupled components into something much more flexible. This allows you to use only the functionality you really need.

5. Upload Plugin by jose gonzalez

The Upload Plugin is an attempt to sanely upload files using techniques garnered packages such as MeioUpload , UploadPack and PHP documentation.

6. MeioUpload 2.0 Plugin by jrbasso

This behavior provides to upload files in your application, as well as the possibility to translate the error message (originally only in portuguese) and the use of phpThumb as a better thumbnail generator.

You can also use it in No-DB mode, which means that no data for the upload is stored within the database. You can further this by setting var $useTable = false in the model, which will both trigger No-DB mode AND allow quick uploads.

7. Ajax File Uploading with Cake and jQuery [Tutorial]

Here’s how to upload files in CakePHP using jQuery.

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Though the Google Map craze has passed, I have decided to write a tutorial to implement a Google Map because in my opinion, I don’t feel there has been a clean, flexible method of creating a map. Also, since this is CakePHP, we like to do things properly.

2. Google Map Helper

A handy tool to generate maps using Google Map API.
I found CakePHP to be helpful with a lot of things and I loved the fact that anyone can reuse any classes made in PHP using ‘vendors’ in CakePHP. We recently wrote a CakePHP helper for generating map in CakePHP application.

The helper uses Google Maps API V2 class (http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/GoogleMapAPI/) from phpinsider.com.

3. Google static maps helper for CakePHP

This is a simple CakePHP helper to create static maps using google API. For more information on the api and how to get an api key consult the Google Static Maps API.
How to use:

• Add helper file to your app
• Add your google api key to the core.php
• Reference it on your controller
• Use it in your view

4. YAGMH – Yet another Google Map Helper

This is just an update of the google map helper by Mahmoud Lababidi (based on an older helper by gwoo).
Some tweaks to let it work inside an ajax rendered view, and a couple of small new features (render map with zoom and center based on actual markers, and an optional minimap overview).

5. Google static maps helper for CakePHP

This is a simple CakePHP helper to create static maps using google API. For more information on the api and how to get an api key consult the Google Static Maps API.

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This article explains step-by-step on how to setup your CakePHP dev environment to get the most out of open source tooling.
There are lots of great resources out there for developing CakePHP apps in eclipse – but they are outdated and scattered. I took the time tonight to setup my environment, so I figured I’d blog about it. Below are the steps I took to get thinks as I like ’em. I run Ubuntu 10.10 64bit, but these directions should apply to any OS. This requires you have CakePHP 1.3.X extracted someplace on your box.

2. CakePHP Development with PhpED

n this tutorial you will learn how to use NuSphere’s PHP IDE to develop PHP applications using CakePHP – rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying PHP applications. Please note that the purpose of this tutorial is not to teach you how to program with CakePHP but rather to show you how to setup and use the features of PhpED to program CakePHP applications fast and easy. We will be using CakePHP’s 15 minutes blog tutorial as the basis for our study.

3. CakePHP support in NetBeans

NetBeans is a very powerful development environment for many languages including PHP. With the release of its latest version, NetBeans announced full support for symfony PHP framework. NetBeans can also support many other PHP frameworks and libraries although it is not officially supported by NetBeans. This support needs some effort to enable some tools specially auto-complete, or intellisense, which saves a lot of time for developers.

4. Using CakePHP with your IDE

In this tutorial we’ll show you how to set up syntax highlighting for .thtml and .ctp files.

CakePHP and Eclipse

To set up your version of Eclipse to read either file type, follow these steps:

• Go to Window > Preferences > General > Content types
• In the content types window navigate the tree to text > PHP content type
• Click add
• Enter *.ctp or *.thtml depending on what version of CakePHP you use. It might be best to add both – just in case.
• Now navigate to Editors > File Associations
• Enter *.ctp or *.thtml depending on what version of CakePHP you use.
• Under “Associated Editors:”, select the PHP Editor and click Default.

CakePHP and Dreamweaver

• Go to your Dreamweaver installation folder (let’s assume this is C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Dreamweaver CS3)
• Open the configuration folder
• Edit extensions.txt and modify the first line so THTML and CTP are present (comma seperated. It should look something like this: ,MASTER,THTML,CTP:All Documents
• Edit the PHP files line in the same way. It should look like this: PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,TPL,THTML,CTP:PHP Files
• Now browse to the DocumentTypes folder and open MMDocumentTypes.xml.
• Do a ctrl-f search for “winfileextension” and modify the line to look like this: winfileextension=”php,php3,php4,php5,thtml,ctp”
• Do the same for “macfileextension”: macfileextension=”php,php3,php4,php5,thtml,ctp”
• Now go to your “Document and Settings” folder (found under your username e.g. “C:Documents and SettingsYour User NameApplication DataAdobeDreamweaver 9Configuration”
• Edit “Extensions.txt” and add the same lines you added to the other extensions file.

Using CakePHP with Aptana

• From the Window menu, select Preferences…, and then choose General > Editors > File Associations.
• Add the appropriate file type.
• Next to the File Types list, click the Add button.
• In the New File Type pop-up window, type the appropriate file extension (e.g. “.ctp” or “.thtml”).
• Click OK to add the New File Type to the List.
• Associate the new file type with Aptana.
• On the File Types list, select the file type that you just added.
• Next to the Editor Associations list, click the Add button.
• On the Editor Selection pop-up window, select the editor that you want to associate with your file type.
• Click OK to add the editor.
• The new is now associated with the specified file type.
• Click OK to apply your changes and close the Preferences window.

CakePHP with gEdit or other Linux editors

Edit the /etc/mime.types file to point .ctp or .thtml files to the relevant editor you are using.

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5. CakePHP plug-in With CodeLobster

Starting developing on PHP, probably you often face the problem which IDE to choose for Windows OS. Whereas most companies sell it at high price (100-500$), we offer multifunctional portable IDE FREE absolutely with all standard features:
PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript highlighting, advanced PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript autocomplete, Powerful PHP debugger, SQL autocomplete, Context and Dynamic Help and much more…
Supported Cms & Php Frameworks: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, CakePhp, CodeIgniter, Facebook, Smarty

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1. CakePHP Search Plugin

Search plugin is an easy way to include search into your application. Using this plugin you will able to have paginable search in any controller. Plugin support simple methods to search inside models using strict and non-strict comparing, but also allows you to implement any complex type of searching. The search plugin will allow you to make any kind of data searchable, i.e. allow you to implement robust searching rapidly.

2. Search feature to CakePHP

This tutorial with code examples will show you how to build the search functionality in your projects which are based on CakePHP framework. Part of this tutorial is based on the documentation provided by the actual CakePHP documentation pages and another part is a custom functionality. Great and useful examples.

3. Search Forms in CakePHP

Another good tutorial by MisterPHP blog about building search forms with pagination. In project you’ll build while reading this tutorial pagination pages will remember search results while allowing user to navigate through multiple groups of pages in CakePHP.

4. Search Plugin for CakePHP 2

Based on suggestions from our readers we have added another link.
This plugin is shared on official CakePHP blog, it has links to code on GitHub and has example implementation of search by using CakePHP 2 framework.

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