In case anyone else is interested, In the new CakePHP 2.0.5, you will an index.php in webroot folder: Copy this file and name it cron_dispatcher.php, and place it into the same directory (webroot) You will find this code at the very bottom: $Dispatcher = new Dispatcher(); $Dispatcher->dispatch(new CakeRequest(), new CakeResponse(array(‘charset’ => Configure::read(‘App.encoding’)))); change the bottom … Read more
The way I figured out how I can keep my complex find in my model without having to rewrite it a second time in the controller is by passing a $paginate boolean variable. If $paginate is true, it returns just the options created, which can then be used in the controller’s pagination. If it’s false … Read more
How to Install DebugKit for CakePHP (in just 4 easy steps!): STEP 1 (option A): The traditional / download method: Create a DebugKit folder within your app/Plugin directory, and put the contents of the download into it (not the top-level folder – the stuff within it). If you know how to clone from github, that … Read more
What are the benefits of using MVC PHP frameworks ? Well there are many benefits of using PHP frameworks, let’s see some of the main benefits of using them. These PHP frameworks follow some design pattern, so when you use a framework you have to follow their coding convention, which makes your code clean and … Read more
Try adding the socket: ‘unix_socket’ => ‘/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock’,
CakePHP has two methods for getting the last inserted id: Model::getLastInsertID() and Model::getInsertID(). Actually these methods are identical so it really doesn’t matter which method you use. echo $this->ModelName->getInsertID(); echo $this->ModelName->getLastInsertID(); This methods can be found in cake/libs/model/model.php on line 2768
There’s more than one way to solve this (please note that the following code is untested example code! You should get a grasp on the new basics first before using any of this). A custom database type One would be a custom database type, which would encrypt when binding the values to the database statement, … Read more
There are some UK phone number regular expressions here. The most highly rated one from that page is: ^(((\+44\s?\d{4}|\(?0\d{4}\)?)\s?\d{3}\s?\d{3})|((\+44\s?\d{3}|\(?0\d{3}\)?)\s?\d{3}\s?\d{4})|((\+44\s?\d{2}|\(?0\d{2}\)?)\s?\d{4}\s?\d{4}))(\s?\#(\d{4}|\d{3}))?$ It is described as: Matches +447222555555 | +44 7222 555 555 | (0722) 5555555 #2222 Non-Matches (+447222)555555 | +44(7222)555555 | (0722) 5555555 #22 Personally I would not put a strict regex on a phone number unless … Read more
You need make sure to start the session at the top of every PHP file where you want to use the $_SESSION superglobal. Like this: <?php session_start(); echo $_SESSION[‘youritem’]; ?> You forgot the Session HELPER. Check this link : book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/helpers/session.html
Set a string for the _serialize option instead of an array. An array indicates that there might be multiple view vars that need to be serialized, and that requires them to be packed into separate object properties. $this->set(array( ‘platformusers’ => $platformusers, ‘_serialize’ => ‘platformusers’ )); That should give you the desired result.