Dec 27, 2008 Posted by Kjell

Easy CakePHP deployment: Environment & Database Config

I just digged Rafael Bandeiras Environment class which is supposed to help handling multiple enviroments. It really is a nice piece of code and i don’t find it overkill either. After adding it to my app i thought how i could use my setups to change the database with ease. I then remembered reading an bakery article from Joel Moss on how one could use the object constructor in the DATABASE_CONFIG... read more

Dec 27, 2008 Posted by Kjell

Events in CakePHP – I really like it

I am playing around with a custom “events” implementation i just finished and i must say that this is really beautiful. Okay, you have more files to manage, but in exchange you get cleaner main files (controllers, models, etc.). So yeah – it’s also a second abstraction level, but i think a very powerful one and worth to look into. Think that you never ever again need to overwrite... read more