I was poking through the addons for Firebug today, and liked the look of FirePHP, so I started looking into how I could use it. As many of you know, I’m a big fan of CakePHP as a framework, so I looked up how to integrate the two together and make them work nicely. I [...]

Got some CakePHP models with deep associations that you need to pull into the data that you display when you paginate them? This used to be a royal pain in the butt, and pretty much required custom pagination, but no more! Behold: $this->paginate = array( ‘Customer’ => array( ‘contain’ => array( ‘Order(id)’, ‘Order.AccessCode(id)’, ‘ShippingAddress(city,state)’ ) [...]

I just finished tracking down a bug that I’ve been working on for nearly two days, and it turns out to have been something VERY simple. The basic problem was that while a long running CakePHP request was running, the rest of the Cake app was non-responsive. This is because of a ‘feature’ of PHP. [...]

There are many frameworks out there for PHP. Too many, even, some might say. So how did I settle on using CakePHP for my prefered framework? Well, to be honest, I think I was just lucky. Chuck, a guy I work with, introduced me to it for a project we were working on, and I [...]