Category Archives: tutorial

Using Zend Framework Components in CakePHP

Yesterday, A/R/T has published my article I wrote some time ago about using Zend Framework components in CakePHP. In that article a very simple application is created which uses the Zend_Service_Flickr component to access the Flickr webservices.

(PHP)Eclipse and phpDocumentor

In a comment Carriantor has pointed me to a tutorial about integrating phpDocumentor, a tool to generate API docs, into Eclipse. Thanks Carriantor!

Extending the CakePHP framework

Yesterday, my article “Extending the CakePHP framework” has been published on the Zend Developer Zone. It is an introduction to helpers, components and plug-ins (and my very first article outside of this blog *g*).

Your first bite of CakePHP

Fabio Cevasco has written another introductory article about CakePHP, this time on sitepoint.com. It is a good read for newbies, but if you have already done your first steps with CakePHP you probably know the things explained in the article.

How to update multiple divs with Ajax

This is a question which arises from time to time in the CakePHP google group. There is an example in the group, but I have to admit I didn’t understood it the first time I read it. So I try to provide a better example. First we create a view with an Ajax link and [...]

Tutorial: How to set up CakePHP with the Uniform Server

This tutorial is intended for newbies and describes how to set up CakePHP with the Uniform Server. What’s the Uniform Server? From the project site: The Uniform Server is a WAMP package that allows you to run a server on any MS Windows OS based computer.

Dreamweaver and CakePHP

If you want to edit CakePHP views (.thtml files) with Dreamweaver, you have to modify some files first. The necessary steps are explained in a short tutorial. [via CakeBot]

Four new tutorials about IIS, ACL, an online editor, and pagination

The first tutorial covers, as its title indicates, a very special topic: CakePHP Under IIS 6 without Rewrite. “Tutorial” is a little bit overstated as it is very short: you find the nitty-gritty in two sentences ;-) The tutorial ACL access checking describes how to use Access Control Lists (ACL) to secure both controller-actions and [...]

Cake Migrations

Joel Moss has published a first version of Cake Migrations, a port of Rails Migrations. What are (Rails) migrations? Steve Eichert provides a good explanation in his post “Ruby on Rails Migrations Explained”: Rails Migrations allow developers to define the changes to their database using a domain specific language that abstracts the change away from [...]

The Cake Bakery is moving forward

The long awaited next step of the Cake Bakery project tutorial has been published. This step features the rewritten bake tool (you find the bake tool in cake/scripts). Update (2006-08-24): Removed link as it is no longer valid.

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