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Neil Crookes

Learnings and Teachings on Web Application Development & CakePHP

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Jan

30

CakePHP Site Search with Yahoo! BOSS

A complete turnkey solution for integrating Yahoo! BOSS powered site search functionality into your CakePHP application.

Jan

29

Send ‘em back from whence they came

A CakePHP component for tracking a user’s journey through your app, and redirecting them back to previous pages instead of hard coding the address. Code is ribbed… I mean MIT licensed for your pleasure.

Nov

28

Runtime Config in CakePHP apps

Inspired by Chris Hartjes blog post titled Handling Multiple Environments In Your PHP Application, I decided to post what I do that’s similar in my CakePHP apps.

Sep

12

Recording created_by and modified_by

One example of how you can record created_by and modified_by data in your CakePHP applications.

Aug

30

Coding Style Guide

The coding style guide I’ve put in place at work to enhance the quality, legibility and maintainability of the code produced by my team. Based heavily on the CakePHP Coding Standards, with a few additional guidelines I’ve found important.

Aug

30

The Programmer’s Manifesto

A list of 10 things to help improve the quality of yours and your team’s code, such as sticking to a coding style guide, testing, commenting your code, adding commit messages, staying DRY, performance and security, being MVC strict, keeping track of your time and making use of your down time.

Apr

17

Customising Baked Views in CakePHP

An introduction to how you go about customising CakePHP’s bake templates with some simple very simple examples. Part of a series of posts about customising bake templates and tasks.