CakePHP: generate .po localization files using Shell

  Using the bake command, cakephp will read all your source files and it will extract all the text to translate. So it’s very important that you write the string in the i18n function and don’t pass just variables. For example to extract the text, using the command line go to you app directory, and execute …

CakePHP joining tables

In many cases when we want to formulate complex queries, that need joins between tables, we can still add joins on the fly by adding it to the call of find $students_of_grade = $this->User->find('list',array(             'fields'=>array('UserData.user_id'), 'joins'=>array(                      array(     …

CakePHP: change default model for a controller

By default a CakePHP controller uses a model with singularized name, for example a controller with name Students will use by default a model named Student, But if you want or have to change the default model for a controller you can set it using $modelClass member attribute for example for a controller named ClassesController …

CakePHP: Custom routes and pagination

In CakePHP it is pretty easy to change the way that users reach to a specific action to another beautiful URL for ex: you may have a page that contains category details, and users reach to it via: http://domain.com/categories/view/id controller is "categories", action is "view", and it takes 1 parameter id and you may want …

CakePHP: Get Client’s IP Address

in CakePHP 1.x Through the RequestHandler Component: RequestHandlerComponent::getClientIp(); in CakePHP 2.x RequestHandler::getClientIp() is deprecated, so you can use the CakeRequest object $this->request->clientIp();   of course you can still use the server variable   $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']

CakePHP max number of fetched row on pagination

By default, the maximum number of fetched rows on pagination is set to 100 rows, whatever number of rows higher than it you assign it to the "limit", property, it will not affect, but you can adjust it as part of the pagination options: public $paginate = array( // other keys here. 'maxLimit' => 10 ); …

CakePHP and MySQL tinyint datatype

I observed that CakePHP treats tinyint fields as boolean (true/false) , but after investigation found that: if you set the data type for a field to tinyint with length of 1, then CakePHP will treat it as boolean. So I changed it to tinyint(2), That's weird about CakePHP

Parsing XML easily in CakePHP 2

It is very easy to parse XML in CakePHP , here is an example in CakePHP v2 // import XML Utility class App::uses('Xml', 'Utility'); // your XML file's location $xml1 = Xml::build('http://url-of-XML'); $xml2 = Xml::build('http://http://url-of-XML', array('return' => 'simplexml')); // $xml now is a instance of SimpleXMLElement // New method using DOMDocument $xml3 = Xml::build('http://url-of-XML', array('return' …

CakePHP 2 aggressive Security – continued

CakePHP 2.0 has another aggressive security which is shown clearly when trying to make an ajax request to an action via method POST, it fires security error that says "Request is blackholed due to auth". The Solution to disable this aggressive validation for this action to set security attribute $validatePost to false.   property SecurityComponent::$validatePost Set …

CakePHP 2 Aggressive Security

CakePHP has had CSRF protection since 1.2. For 2.0 the existing CSRF has a new more paranoid mode, and is its own standalone feature. By default a new CSRF token is generated for each request, and each token can only be used one. If a token is used twice, it will be blackholed. Sometimes, this …