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Cakephp Filter gotcha for rails folks

Submitted by Derick Ng on 17 February 2009 - 12:19pm

Usually in Rails, if you specify a before_filter in the base controller ‘ApplicationController’ (in application.rb), every other controller in that app inherits that filter, so that even if you specify a before_filter in another controller … the filter in application.rb always runs
Example:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   before_filter :check_login
end

class UploadsController < ApplicationController
    before_filter :get_data
end

The :check_login method is [...]

How to get a hasMany dropdown/select tag in cakephp

Submitted by Derick Ng on 14 February 2009 - 3:40pm

Getting a dropdown of items a model hasMany of, should be very easy to do, but I always forget and it takes me far longer to find it than it should.
For this brief example, we’re assuming that we have an Uploads model and a FileCategory model.
Uploads belongs to FileCategory and File Category has many [...]

Cakephp gotcha: Don’t name controller the same as folder in webroot

Submitted by Derick Ng on 14 February 2009 - 5:59am

This one had me going for a bit, but if you name a controller the same as a file that is in the “webroot” folder, and try to navigate to it, cake will just show you a listing of all the files in the same named directory.
As an example, the “files” folder comes with the [...]