Justin Atack

Internationalization of Strings in CakePHP 3

If you are building an app that is going to be multi-language then from day one you need to consider how to make the job of internationalization easy for your translator. In my opinion you should account for this even if you don’t plan to release your app in more than one language. You just never know! You might go global.

Translating strings is not just about translating words from one language…

Security by obscurity is never a good policy but there are still some legitimate reasons why you would want to hide your id’s. One good reason is that you don’t want to reveal how many users you perhaps have or at what rate your membership is growing. Making it difficult for the average website visitor to cycle through your id’s by just changing the URL is also important.

The following code…

CakePHP 3 with TinyAuth & Blame

I want to walk you through a blank CakePHP 3 setup and install a few worthwhile plugins. The primary goal of this post is to show how to setup Dereuromark’s TinyAuth plugin which is fantastic however may leave a few newbies scratching their heads trying to get it set up. So what follows will be a cookbook style approach with copy and paste code.

There is a number of ways we could setup TinyAuth…

CakePHP3 Database Migrations with Phinx

[dropcap]C[/dropcap]ontinuing on from my last post CakePHP3 Database Migration Commands as I promised this is a follow up with actual working examples that you can use right away. The database migrations I have put together use CakePHP3 Model & Database Conventions and so you can be sure all tables will be picked up and correctly related to each other with a “bin/cake bake all {model}” command.

I…

CakePHP3 Database Migration Commands

A list of a few help commands to use when create database migration files.

Check the status of migrations

bin/cake migrations status

This would show something like the following

Welcome to CakePHP v3.0.0-RC2 Console --------------------------------------------------------------- App : src Path: /home/vagrant/public/cakephp/src/ --------------------------------------------------------------- using…

Install CakePHP3 on Laravel Homestead

This guide is not comprehensive, it is assumed that you have already installed Vagrant, Laravel Homestead and VirtualBox. The guide is based on Mac OSX10.10.

CakePHP3 requires the php5-intl extension that at the time of writing is not by default installed on Laravel Homestead. The good news is that it’s easy to install.

First you need to ssh into your Homestead Machine.

homestead up homestead ssh

Install CakePHP2 on Codio

I only just discovered Codio yesterday! How come nobody ever told me about this? If you haven’t tried it yet and you are a keen programmer you should try it out. Chances are though you here because you are trying to get CakePHP2 working.

Well I’ve put in the hard work for you so just follow the steps below to get it working.

Step 1 – Create Project

Create a new project.

Give it a name. I named…

Encrypt & Decrypt CakePHP Database Fields

In a current project I’ve been working on I needed to encrypt and decrypt database fields such as user phone numbers and email address. While this is not the only security measure you should have in place it’s certainly worth while for sensitive data that you want to provide a little extra obscurity for. Remember that this trick just encrypts the data so that means that it can be decrypted, in…

Limit CakePHP Results by YEAR, MONTH or DAY

Sometime you only want to return a limited set of results based on the year, month or day. So how do you do this?

The solution is quite simple. The following code can be used as part of a find(‘all’), find(‘list’) query or as part of a containable condition.

'conditions' => array('YEAR(Model.date)' => date('Y'))

  'conditions' => array('MONTH(Model.date)' => date('m'))

  'conditions' =>…

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