CakePHP site redesign for 1.2 release ?? !!

A week or 2 ago the appearance of the bin changed from to  .
Today Trac was offline for a couple of hours and when it came back looked like this:

Would this be the redesign for the CakePHP 1.2 release ??

Birth of Lisa Westen

This morning @ 2:17AM our daughter Lisa is born.

CakePHP: Calling bake from every dev-app install folder

If you use a setup like I explained in my previous post calling the bake script involves a lot of typing with the core and app parameter paths.
If I want to call the bake script from the /Users/mwesten/Sites/dev/myapp cake app folder, it has to be done like this:

CakePHP: Central cake core install with multiple apps

When developing on my system I like to use only one version of the core files. If I update the core files from svn it gets updated for all apps I’m working on.
The way I’m using this is explained below:
In my web-root I do an svn export of cake latest:

cd /Users/mwesten/Sites
svn export https://svn.cakephp.org/repo/branches/1.2.x.x/ cake1.2.x.x

Now we [...]

CakePHP on OSX: Problem using Bake.php script

If you are getting the following errors while trying to bake something on osx 10.4:

"Warning: mysql_connect(): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through
socket ‘/var/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2) in
/Library/WebServer/Documents/development/bakery/cake/libs/model/dbo/dbo_mysql.php
on line 117"

try doing the following:

sudo ln -s /tmp /var/mysql

Or you could follow the instruction given by Apple: Mac OS X Server 10.4: Issues connecting PHP to MySQL

Top 5 red flags of software development

svn had 2 very nice items:
The top 5 red flags of software development:

“Wouldn’t it be easy to…” (the hidden cost of change)
“This shouldn’t take long” (artificial time frame)
“Can you make this small change real quick?” (“small” and “quick”)
“Before you finish X, could you do Y?” (the mental costs of interruption)
“Let’s push this today” (artificial scope)

and:
If [...]

CakePHP 1.2: “Model/field” in formhelper deprecated

As cakebaker states:
The use of “Model/field” in the formhelper has been deprecated in CakePHP 1.2.
In CakePHP 1.1 you would call:

$form->input(’Post/title’);

In CakePHP 1.2 this has to be written like:

$form->input(’Post.title’);

Automatic updating Select boxes with Ajax

Othman Ouahbi has a very nice example on his blog on creating automatic updating select-boxes with Ajax.
If you change the first select-box, it updates the next selectbox accordingly.

Nice writeup of Ajax use in CakePHP

Ahsanul Bari created a nice list of links to articles on the use of Ajax in CakePHP.
Some of the parts covered are:

Getting Started
AutoComplete
Ajax Redirect
Ajax Validation
Encoding
Ajax Uploader

So head over to Ahsan’s Laboratory and distover how to implement some nice ajax stuff in your web-app!

CakePHP 1.2: $html->link with html or image.

In CakePHP 1.1 if you need to display an image or piece of HTML with a link to an action, you need to instruct cake NOT to escape the contents of the “Title” attribute with the last false statement like this:

e(
$html->link(
$html->image("add.gif"),
array(’action’ => ‘add’),
array(),
null,
false ));

In CakePHP 1.2 you could rewrite this [...]