Using Breadcrumbs with cakePHP

November 15th, 2008
Generating neat looking breadcrumbs (or breadcrumb trails) with cakePHP is almost too easy to write an extra article for it... but I'll do it anyway. There are actually only two things that have to be done: Add the following line of code where you want your breadcrumbs to appear ...

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Getting a Design - Using Joomla Templates for cakePHP

November 14th, 2008
Design is probably not an area of particular strength of cakePHP. And it's not of me either... Designing a webpage from scratch requires a lot of work & time and is not something I particularly enjoy. Unfortunately there are almost no design templates available for cake (yet?). This might be ...

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Optimizing Blogs for Searchengines

November 14th, 2008
My blog in this form is now a little bit over 40 hours old and I already made several mistakes with regards to our friends: the search engines. There are several good articles and presentations that I would recommend for reading: try this, this and this. So ...

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Highlighting Code when Blogging

November 14th, 2008
When you want to display code, i.e. syntax of some programming language like PHP, C, Java or whatever on your blog you could just copy and past it. This doesn't look very nice though and is most likely not enjoyable for your readers. A better approach would be to use ...

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Google Webmaster Tools

November 14th, 2008
I just tested another nice feature of Google I wasn't aware of yet: Google Webmaster Tools. This is a set of tools developed for us webmasters to monitor and analyse all kind of stuff in relation to the Google search engine. Most relevant features I think are: See with what ...

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Interim Results Project WebMoney

November 14th, 2008
Ok, with all that baking, coding and blogging yesterday I almost forgot about Project WebMoney. Well only almost... Of course I had to check the traffic statistics for my four websites and here are the results: tobman.com: PR 0, about 120 visitors/day +1200 % django.at: PR 3, about 20 visitors/day +/-0% videopodcast.tv: PR ...

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cakePHP: Baking the Controllers & Views

November 13th, 2008
After baking the models the next step is to bake the controllers. This is very similiar you just chose C at the main menu and then go through the questions asked. You should not choose to build your controller interactively because then some basic functionality can be added automatically (Choose ...

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cakePHP: Baking the Models

November 13th, 2008
After you have created your tables in your database you are ready to start Baking! Bake is a command line tool that can be executed as a script. Open up terminal (Mac OS X) and go to your cake/console directory. From there you can start the command line tool for ...

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Designing the database for a cakePHP website

November 13th, 2008
Ok, so the first and really really most important thing when working with cakePHP is to get the database structure right. Of course you can always change tables and fields afterwards but then you have to manually change the model and methods. So try to keep it as final as ...

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Building websites with cakePHP

November 13th, 2008
In the last article I described how to set up a smooth Apache, PHP & MySQL configuration using as much built in features of Mac OS X as possible and how to get cakePHP up and running. The intention was to have a local cakePHP setup for developing a website. ...

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