CakePHP Filter Component

For a recent project I've been working on the index pages required the data to be both sortable and filterable. Luckily CakePHP comes with the Pagination class which covers the directional sorting of data and I went looking online for something that will filter the data.

Creating an Admin Section with CakePHP Updated

My previous post on this topic is the most viewed article on the website so I thought I would re-visit it and do it all again using the latest version of Cake which at the time of writing is 1.2.3.8166

I'm going to be using a similar method as last time but a lot more refined, mainly because I'm improving as a programmer and that I'm getting more familiar with CakePHP and the best practises with using it.

Custom CakePHP Flash Messages Updated

I've been quite inactive recently and had a few comments about the "flash messages" article and it's really outdated so I thought I would do a quick update. Last time I created a new class that extended the SessionHelper but that isn't necessary and the process is much simpler. I'm using CakePHP 1.2.3.8166 in this article.

Introducing CakeBattles

CakeBattles is an online application that allows Contenders to be pitted against each and allows users to vote on who/what would win. Each Contender can be assigned to multiple Tags which are used to create battles with similar Contenders. Each Contender can also have multiple images and these are displayed at random to keep the battles fresh.

The application was written in CakePHP and was inspired from CommandShift3 which allows users to vote on website designs. I wanted to create something similar and have been developing it in my spare time between work and freelance projects with the intent to release it online.

An example of the application in action can be seen here. Whilst developing the application I wanted to look at something pretty so I've used a bunch of hot women but I've tried to make the system as generic as possible and anything could be used e.g. films, TV shows or music albums.

Using Ajax to Populate a Select Box in CakePHP

My apologies for the lack of articles recently, after completing the monster Dvd application I've been pretty busy with regular work and a few freelance gigs. In a project I've been working on I had to dynamically grab some data and then use it in a select box, I thought this would be a great example to go through since its quite a common process in web development.

In this article I'm going to be using jQuery as my Javascript library, I know that CakePHP has built in support for script.aculo.us but its something I've never used and jQuery will do the job just fine.