Monthly Archives: August 2011

In the earlier version of CakePHP i.e. version 1.2, one could only use the built in Ajax pagination if you were using Prototype as your JavaScript library. However creating Ajax pagination has gotten more simple and flexible for 1.3. Read More

Confused regarding incrementing a field in CakePHP? Then here’s a solution! For instance, one has an application, where users can place votes for their favorite products and one would like to increment the current number of votes by one. It’s … Read More

The web community is aware of the two most powerful web application development tools, namely CakePHP and Ruby on Rails. These frameworks are best in their own ways. However, it has been an age long question – which framework should be used for web development? Well, these frameworks have their own pros and cons. This article will help you in deciding which framework to choose. Read More

CakePHP has been one of the most remarkable PHP frameworks available. One of the great challenges of building user friendly web applications is designing an intuitive UI. Most of the applications are large and complex. Displaying a reasonable number of records per page has always been a critical part of every application and used to cause many headaches for developers. CakePHP eases the burden on the developer by providing a quick, easy way to paginate data. Read More

Facing trouble in array from XML in CakePHP? We all know that CakePHP vastly utilizes the array concept in PHP. Here, I am going to explain you how to parse XML in CakePHP and convert it into an array. Read More

Want to create a link that can redirect your web traffic to the homepage? Then, this post might be of some help to you. For instance, you have some partner web site that will drive traffic to a URL like: www.yoursite.com/partnerName. This way you’ll be able to track this link in the web site logs. Just add the following line to your routes.PHP file:
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