Jan 25, 2009 Posted by Kjell

Fancy URLs with Inflector::slug

Motivated by my recent tweet i thought i share my method of replacing the old SluggableBehavior with core functions. Sometimes we have more than one model that uses slugs. For example: Tags, Posts, Categories. That’s why i add the following to AppModel which allows me to call it on any model. function slugify($text) { return low(Inflector::slug($text, '-')); } But because i am lazy i just use one of... read more

Dec 25, 2008 Posted by Kjell

CakePHP Migrations: INTEGER gotchas

Okay.. today i played around with the wonderful migrations implementation from Joel Moss and found some stuff in regard of typing in YAML. First of all: It’s a pain in the ass – Secondly: It’s a breeze when it’s done. Some beginners, just like me, may have wondered about why your generated schema does not reflect the exact layout after doing “migrate up” with the exact... read more