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.