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Neil Crookes

Learnings and Teachings on Web Application Development & CakePHP

Archive for the ‘CakePHP’ Tag

Jun

22

CakePHP Bit.ly Plugin

A CakePHP plugin for interacting with the Bit.ly API. Provides a simple, familiar API for things like listing a user’s links, fetching click stats for one of your links and creating a bit.ly (or j.mp) link.

Jun

18

CakePHP Yahoo GeoPlanet Plugin

A CakePHP plugin for interacting with the Yahoo Geo Planet API. Provides a simple, familiar API for things like searching for places matching a given search term. Can be used to power ‘store finder’ or ‘branch locator’ type functionality.

Jun

1

ReST DataSource plugin for CakePHP

A CakePHP Plugin containing a DataSource for interarcting with ReSTful web services.

Nov

21

CakePHP Searchable Plugin

A flexible and full featured CakePHP plugin for quickly adding site wide, multi-model search functionality to your application.

Sep

27

Get Google Analytics data in your CakePHP app

A CakePHP plugin for displaying Google Analytics data in your own application. The bulk of the code is in 3 datasources, a generic one for working with any REST APIs, a Gdata datasource for handling authentication with any of the 18 Gdata APIs and the Gdata Analytics datasource driver itself.

Feb

26

Get ALL ACL permissions

Use ACL in your CakePHP application? Ever wanted to load all permissions for a user at login? Ever tried it with Acl->check() for each aco in your system and found your users get bored of waiting for your application to log them in? Then try this solution for loading all permissions in one query, that takes a few milliseconds, all thanks to a young man called Ben Roberts.

Feb

9

CakePHP Sequence Behavior

A CakePHP behavior for maintaining a contiguous sequence of order values. Records can be grouped by zero, one or multiple fields and the contiguous sequence is maintained for each group when adding, editing or deleting records.

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.