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Posts made in July, 2009

• Alphabetical Pagination / Sort by in CakePHP

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  CakePHP has some great pagination functions built in – however these are normally categorised with “sortby” and “Number per page”.
  I found on another blog this code (http://foldifoldi.com/news/?p=169):

  function index($filter = null) {
  $this->SttwTrack->recursive = 0;
   
  $this->set(’filter’, $filter);
   
  // query all distinct first letters used in names
  $letters = $this->SttwTrack->query(’SELECT DISTINCT [...]

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• Pagination Across Models / Associations

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  For a CakePHP n00b the pagination thing might seem a bit complicated. Well to be frank it is in someways. For instance you can only currently paginate stuff easily when there is a model involved!
  For instance here is a pagination with a deep association:

  $this->UserProfile->User->Friend->recursive = -1;
  $this->set(’userFriends’, $this->paginate($this->UserProfile->User->Friend,
  array(’Friend.user_id’ => $userid, ‘Friend.accepted’ => 1)));
   
  $this->set(’userFriendsWaiting’, $this->paginate($this->UserProfile->User->Friend,
  array(’Friend.user_id’ => [...]

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• Should you stop supporting IE6?

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  Age old argument isnt it? When should you stop supporting a browser that is outdated? Ok so I know the majority of the time outdated is subjective – but lets face it – Im pretty sure that there isnt one person on the face of this earth that doesnt think think IE6 is outdated.
  But what [...]

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• View what variables are being passed to the view

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  I sometimes think it is useful to see exactly what variables (and values are being passed to the view in cakePHP), especially if the project you are working on is complex with much pseudo repetitive data.
  A simple solution to do this is to insert this piece of code in your view:

  foreach ($this->getVars() as $name) {
   
  pr($$name);
  }

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• A CakePHP Friends List not using HABTM

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  Right,
  When I started out on this I hit t’internet looking for any kind of hints as to the best way of going about this. The first thing I came across was the use of a Self Referential HABTM relationship ( User<-HABTM->User ), naturally not being the uber Cake Nerd this really didnt work out too [...]

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