Over the course of the last few weeks, I've been developing a complete social network plugin for CakePHP. The plugin takes advantage of Gigya, a free social network service that allows a developer a single API to interface with multiple social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google, OpenID, Yahoo, Myspace, and many more.

Gi...

Peer Pressure -- hangin with the cool kids

I've been debating making the switch to github for a while now. I've always liked git just fine, but I felt more at home with SVN. However, the more I work and collaborate with users via github the more I really appreciate it, and git. However, as much as I've come to love git, some of the servers...

I'm excited to announce the newest v5.0 release of the popular File Upload Plugin. There have been a lot of new features since the last major release and I'll discuss each one in depth.

New Features

At a glance:

- Validation, and file upload errors now display back to the view
- new 'required' key setting
- new 'maxFileSize' key sett...

Testing is one of the most essential parts of any application, and CakePHP apps are no different. CakePHP ships with a very nice full featured testing suite with a little help from simpletest. If you're not fully testing your CakePHP app you're really missing out.

Pump some models

Testing is like going to the gym. The more you go, the mor...

While working on many projects over the years I've come to the conclusion people don't take advantage of CakePHP's alias attribute nearly enough. As such I've decided to go a bit into one of my personal experiences to show you the power of $this-alias. We may even get you laid in the process.....

Case Study

Recently I've had the (dis)pleas...

The purpose of the Facebook plugin is to provide a seamless way to connect your cakePHP app to everyone's favorite social networking site -- Facebook. The goal for this plugin is to not only provide extremely useful dynamic features but to also provide a complete interface to the Facebook API.

This plugin is specifically for CakePHP 1.3

E...

I've been putting off this post for a while; I wanted to finish a few more of my little side projects into a nice little goodies plugin for cakePHP. However, with school, and other commitments I've decided to release what I have so far and then later edit/add-to this post as I release more tricks in my bag-o-goodies. :)

Putting the M back i...

Wouldn't it be handy to see how many people are on your CakePHP app at any given time? Wouldn't it be nice to actually see where they currently are in your app? With this simple CakePHP plugin -- now you can

Simple Concept...

The idea is simple; anytime someone visits your app a small database entry is created logging what their IP is and ...

New in version 4.0 of the File Upload Plugin is a new behavior and global settings classes. As most of you who are familiar with File Upload Plugin know, it was rather odd that when you setup the FileUpload component the way you wanted in your controller you then had to set it up again in your view for the helper to send the component the right...

I've improved upon the Paypal IPN plugin to include easy email notifications and multiple item third party cart uploads to paypal via the helper.

Migration Guide

Migrating to 3.5 from v3.0 just requires another table to handle multiple cart items. I've written a schema file to migrate for you.

Migration v3.0 to v3.5: