CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
Credits......Page 4
About the Author......Page 5
About the Reviewers......Page 6
www.PacktPub.com......Page 8
Preface......Page 16
Introduction......Page 22
Setting up a basic authentication system......Page 23
Using and configuring the Auth component......Page 27
Allowing logins with username or e-mail......Page 31
Saving the user details after login......Page 34
Getting the current user's information......Page 36
Using prefixes for role-based access control......Page 39
authentication......Page 42
Integrating with OpenID......Page 49
Introduction......Page 54
Adding Containable to all models......Page 55
Limiting the bindings returned in a find......Page 56
Modifying binding parameters for a find......Page 65
Modifying binding conditions for a find......Page 70
associations......Page 71
same model......Page 72
Adding bindings on the fly......Page 75
Introduction......Page 78
Performing GROUP and COUNT queries......Page 79
Using virtual fields......Page 86
Building queries with ad-hoc JOINs......Page 90
search terms......Page 93
Implementing a custom find type......Page 95
Paginating a custom find type......Page 101
Implementing AJAX based pagination......Page 103
Introduction......Page 108
Adding multiple validation rules......Page 109
Creating a custom validation rule......Page 113
Using callbacks in behaviors......Page 118
Using behaviors to add new fields for saving......Page 126
Using the Sluggable behavior......Page 128
behavior......Page 132
Improving the SQL datasource query log......Page 138
Parsing CSV files with a datasource......Page 145
Consuming RSS feeds with a datasource......Page 150
Building a Twitter datasource......Page 154
to the MySQL datasource......Page 164
Introduction......Page 174
Using named and GET parameters......Page 175
Using routes with prefixes......Page 181
Working with route elements......Page 186
Adding catch-all routes for profile pages......Page 189
Adding validation for catch-all routes......Page 192
Creating custom Route classes......Page 196
Introduction......Page 200
Creating an RSS feed......Page 201
Consuming a JSON service......Page 207
Building REST services with JSON......Page 212
Adding authentication to REST services......Page 222
for API access......Page 227
Building and running a shell......Page 234
Parsing command line parameters......Page 239
Creating reusable shell tasks......Page 244
Sending e-mails from shells......Page 255
Non-interactive tasks with the robot plugin......Page 259
Introduction......Page 266
Internationalizing controller and view texts......Page 267
messages......Page 273
Translating strings with dynamic content......Page 277
Extracting and translating text......Page 280
Translate behavior......Page 284
Setting and remembering the language......Page 289
Setting up the test framework......Page 294
Creating fixtures and testing model methods......Page 299
Testing controller actions and their views......Page 309
Using mocks to test controllers......Page 312
Running tests from the command line......Page 316
Working with the Set class......Page 318
Manipulating strings with the String class......Page 327
Sending an e-mail......Page 330
Detecting file types with MagicDb......Page 335
Throwing and handling exceptions......Page 341
Index......Page 348