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 ??

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

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 [...]

CakePHP 1.2: redirect method

Previously (in CakePHP 1.1) it was best to add an exit or return after you redirect method like:

$this->redirect(’controller/action’);
exit();

or

$this->redirect(’controller/action’);
return();

in CakePHP 1.2 this can be shortened to:

$this->redirect(’controller/action’, null, true);

See cakebaker on this too.