milesjohnson

So lately I have been delving into the cacheing capabilities of CakePHP. Most, if not all of its capabilities work wonderfully; although I personally can't get into $cacheAction (within the controllers). The $cacheAction property only works for static and non-user generated pages, in other terms, any content that changes depending on a logged in user wont work correctly with $cacheAction (unless you want thousands and thousands of cache files). So I stopped using $cacheAction all together in my latest application, and instead built a method that caches individual queries, instead of the whole page. Continue reading...

I always hear talk about reset CSS, and how every website should encompass them. I mean it is everywhere. I honestly never found the use or reasoning to include an additional stylesheet, just to render elements as "dull". I simply use the code below to reset only elements I need to worry about, or ones that are used as the majority. Continue reading...

The other day I spent way too many hours trying to figure out CakePHPs built in CSS and JS compression system. To say the least, its not really built in, you have to configure and do a lot of it yourself. I did much searching and found tutorials that didn't work, or using custom built helpers that were of no use, and in the end I wrote my own script (based off webroot/css.php written by gwoo). Continue reading...

If you have developed with the Auth Component at all, you would know by now that the Auth session does not refresh when ever a user updates its information (such a drawback). This is extremely useful in many situations, especially when a user updates his profile, and you need to echo the new content in the views. I have written the following method, which should be placed in your App Controller. Continue reading...