Cupcake Forum v1.8

The Cupcake Forum is a CakePHP plugin based on the popular bulletin board system. Bundled with all basic features, simply drop into your application.

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Mar
14

The widely unused and powerful setAction()

Topics: Tutorials, CakePHP // 3 comments, 213 views
While working on this app, I thought I would give the not so used method, setAction() a spin. If you are unfamiliar with setAction(), its a method that will internally forward one action to another. This is incredibly useful as it allows you to switch actions without having to do another HTTP request, nor having to reload all the controller and related objects; could be a huge saver on overhead. Continue reading...
Mar
3

Upgrading the forum plugin to 1.8

Topics: Tutorials, CakePHP // 0 comments, 238 views
I have been working on the new 1.8 version of the forum for almost 2 months, simply because version 1.7 was completely broken. It used PHP 5.3 constants which didn't work on 99% of the users machines. This problem has now been corrected in the new 1.8 version, but that's not all that changed. All topics, forums and forum categories now use the sluggable behavior for pretty URLs. Furthermore, the Installer has been rewritten completely for faster and easier usage. The main purpose of this post is to direct you in the 1.8 upgrade process as there are many things you need to do. Continue reading...
Feb
17

Setting up cron jobs with Cake shells

Topics: Tutorials, CakePHP // 6 comments, 373 views
This post will primarily be about the process I had to go through to get cron jobs and shells working on Dreamhost. The main problem I kept running into was that the shells would simply not work at all through a cron job; yet they worked when I manually did it through SSH. The weird thing was the source of the console/cake file was being printed in my logs, instead of executed. Continue reading...
Feb
5

Converting a SimpleXML object to an array

Topics: Programming, PHP & MySQL // 7 comments, 394 views
If you have been following my Twitter, you would of heard me complaining about converting a SimpleXML object into an array. I am still having that problem, so if you can get it working correctly (my test so far below), I would be greatly appreciative. If you have never used the SimpleXML object, it can be quite awesome when actually reading an XML document - but once it comes to converting it to something else, it comes straight from the darkest depths of hell. Continue reading...
Feb
2

The fate of class suffixes in 5.3

Topics: Programming // 3 comments, 329 views
Before PHP 5.3 was released, many programmers would suffix their classnames with the package and or module that it pertains to. For example, SessionHelper, UsersController, CommentModel, so on and so forth. But with the recent upgrade to namespaces, are these types of suffixes still required? Continue reading...