cakephp

CakePHP block region

What is the best way to create regions in your layout similar to Wordpress's Widgets or Drupal Blocks? What is the best practice method of doing that in CakePHP? ...

organisation of table for dropdown boxes

Hi, I am using CakePhp and MYsql for my application I am having three tables Forms(id,name,created,modified) Attributes(id,form_id,label,type,sequenceno) Results(id,form_id,attribute_id,label,value,submitted_by) The application i am developing is like form Builder. Generating the fields based on the type (eg .. If type="text"...

php code in jquery

Hi, In CakePHP, the value passed as a parameter in the url can be obtained by the controller attribute <?php $userid= $this->params['pass'][0];?> I want to use $userid inside the jQuery code. $("#displayPanel #saveForm").live("click", function(){ document.location = 'http://localhost/cake_1_2/forms/homepage...

Paginating with CakePHP.

<?php class AlbumsController extends AppController { var $name = 'Albums'; function view($id = null) { $this->Album->id = $id; $this->set('tracks', $this->Album->read()); } } ?> I'm wondering how I would apply paginating to the view function. I've got it worked out for things like: var $paginate = array( 'li...

How to Deal With Codeigniter Templates?

I'm fairly new to MVC framework and found codeigniter recently. I'm still learning everyday but one problem is it's template engine. What is the best way to create it's template? CakePHP comes with it's own template library so how to the same with codeigniter? ...

Problem in storing value in database.

Hi, I am using CakePHP framework with MySQL database and I have problem in saving one particular value to the database. I have a table called 'Attributes' with fields,id,form_id,label,type,size and instructions. When a link is clicked,default values are stored in the table for these fields. Now I added a new column called 'required' t...

Form submission in cakephp using JQuery

I have created the Form as like <?php echo $form->create('Result',array('action'=>'submit'));?> //some input text fields,texarea fields <?php echo $form->end('submit');?> In my JQuery code, i have written like, <script> $(document).ready(function(){ var str,fields; function showValues() { str =...

Problem in storing value in database (cakePHP).

I have a checkbox named required,where if the checkbox is clicked its value is 1,otherwise its 0. The value is correctly passed form the view file to the controller. The model file gets the value from the controller, but the value is not being saved. I echoed the required value in the model,to check if the value is received. The value i...

POsting the forms data with JQuery Form Plugin to cakephp controller

Hi, i am using Form plugin of JQuery.. I added the js file of Form plugin. Already a form is in my code..beforeSubmit alerts the actual form contents correctly,I want to POst this value into my serverside..I tried with the following ,But not working... My code is <?php echo $form->create('Result',array('action'=>'submit'));?> /...

Retrieving the data submitted via JQuery Form Plugin in cakePHP

Hi! I am using JQuery's Form Plugin. How can I get the posted value in the cakephp controller? My code is like this: <?php echo $form->create('Result',array('action'=>'submit'));?> //some input text fields,texarea fields <?php echo $form->end('submit');?> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ var options = { beforeSubm...

jquery form plugin and cakephp submit problem.

I have the following form in cakephp: <div class="quickcontactDisplay"> <?php echo $form->create('Enquiry',array('action'=>'add','class'=>'quickcontact')); echo $form->hidden('visitor_id', array('value' => $visitor)); echo $form->input('name'); echo $form->input('emailAddress',array('size' => 30)); echo $form-...

Editing rows in CakePHP using a real (composite) key

In short, I assume that the correct method of doing this would be an updateAll with the conditions being those of the real key. The problem lies in that updateAll doesn't by default prepare the new values for database insertion. I have seen some code demonstrating how to do the escaping properly, and would prefer to use this instead of...

JQuery form submission and CakePHP controller

Hi, I am using Cakephp and Jquery for my application. My JQuery code is $(document).ready(function(){ var str,fields; function showValues() { str = $("form").serialize(); $("#results").text(str); } $("input").change(sho...

CakePHP Absolute Image URLs

I wish to use the $html->image(...) helper function in CakePHP to output images, but I need it to produce an img tag using an absolute rather than relative URL (the resulting HTML will be downloaded and emailed round in a company newsletter). Is this possible? It's not documented, but I notice from looking at the source code that the im...

cakephp simpletest and rewrite rule

I've setup simpletest to work with my cakephp. I did it as prescribed in the book.cakephp.org. Everything seems to work fine - i've made my first test - super. But the visual layout of the testpage does not look right - I'm talking about www.mydomain.com/test.php. It looks like it has no CSS. I've seen this with the cakephp framework,...

Cakephp: maintaining hasMany/belongsTo relationships in controller actions

Forgive the title of the question; spent 20 minutes trying to write something coherent (doubtful if succeeded). Anyways, using a blog as an example, our models look like this: Post hasMany Comment Comment belongsTo Post Let's say I want to add a new comment: when saving the comment, I need to include the foreign key to the parent Pos...

Disable CakePHP folder override

I have a cakephp installation in the root of my domain. Now it turns out I need to put another app in there that will reside in a subdirectory. How do I disable the controller/model redirection in cake for just this directory? The current .htaccess in the root folder looks like this: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on Rewr...

Which PHP Framework is right for this project?

Hello all, I have asked this question before (didn't get a definite answer) and have read a lot of similar questions to this and I apologize to those getting tired of these sort of questions. :) I have a fully working PHP web project using my half pint PHP skills in a procedural way. But its not up to scratch at all. It can break at an...

cakephp & nginx rewrite rules

Hi somebody please help me out, I’m trying to setup a cakephp environment on a Centos server running Nginx with Fact CGI. I already have a wordpress site running on the server and a phpmyadmin site so I have PHP configured correctly. My problem is that I cannot get the rewrite rules setup correct in my vhost so that cake renders pages ...

How to access non-child models from other controller in CakePHP ?

Hey folks, i got trouble finding information about how to use model that doesnt belong to controller. Lets see, for example: i have ajax controller, that performs only JSON data to application, and it supposed to access different models depending on request. So, how can i do it ? ...