Full CakePHP 1.2 App Part 6

In this article I'm going to create a simple user authentication system whereby users will have to login to access any admin controller action. This is quite a basic application so I'm using the Session route of identifying a logged in user instead of the ACL route.

Full CakePHP 1.2 App Part 5

Welcome to the 5th Article in the series about creating a full CakePHP 1.2 Application, last time I setup the DVD Controller and View files and I'm now able to start adding DVDs to the system. As a side note I've put the application online at dvd.jamesfairhurst.co.uk so you can have a poke around and see how the application is shaping up.

In this Article I'm going to be dealing with the Genres section of the application so I can start to add / edit / delete Genres from the database. The relationship between DVDs and Genres is a HasAndBelongsToMany (HABTM) which means that a single DVD can have multiple Genres and a Genre can have multiple DVDs. I'm going to be looking at how CakePHP deals with this type of association and how to manually create these associations when saving related data.

Full CakePHP 1.2 App Part 4

As the title aptly suggests this is article 4 in my series of creating a full online DVD Catalog Application using CakePHP 1.2. Last time I quickly setup the Types and Locations Controller and Views so that I could start to add more data to the database.

In this article I'm going to create the DVDs controller and View files so that I can start to add / edit / delete DVDs from the database (I've gone for a Tarantino theme to begin with). This is going to be a bit more advanced because I am going to be uploading images to the server and I'm also going to use the jQuery Javascript library to progressively enhance a few forms and to stripe all the tables on the fly.

Full CakePHP 1.2 App Part 3

Welcome to the 3rd article in a series on creating a full CakePHP 1.2 Application. If your new and interested in the project then check out part 1 and part 2 to get fully up to speed on the application in question and see what I've done so far. Just quickly, last time I went through creating the Controller and Views for the Formats table in the database and at the end I could view / add / edit and delete formats using the application.

In this article I'm going to create the Controllers and Views for the Types and Locations. This is going to be pretty simple because they include the exact same functionality as the Formats that was created previously. At the end of the article I will be able to start adding even more data to the database and have a strong understanding of the way CakePHP deals with data.

Full CakePHP 1.2 App Part 2

This is the second article in the series on creating a full DVD Catalog online web application with CakePHP 1.2. Last time I went through the process of beginning a new application from scratch. I created a small brief which led to quite a few requirements that the application will need to do and from those requirements I came up with a database structure that should hold up throughout the project life cycle. Finally I sent up CakePHP on my local computer using Xampp with a Virtual Host and created the Model files for the application. If you have not yet read the first article then please go back and have a quick look so you (hopefully) know what I'm talking about.

In this article I'm going to focus on the Formats table of the application and this includes creating a controller to deal with the functionality that the application will offer such as adding, editing and deleting formats. As well as the controller I'm going to create the related views for all the Format actions and at the end of the article we will be able to start adding data to the application.