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CakePHP: How to add Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs

Posted in cakephp by ruru on the February 18th, 2008

How many times you wondered how great it would be if your URLs didn’t look so much like:
http://www.server.com/posts/view/1058

But more like:
http://www.server.com/posts/view/my_first_post

Read the rest on:
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/adding-friendly-urls-to-the-cake-blog-tutorial

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Cake PHP: Simple Contact Form Tutorial!

Posted in cakephp by ruru on the February 8th, 2008

This guide provide a quick tutorial covering simple contact form for CakePHP v1.2, based on this post
Download code example here! CakePHP 1.2 Simple Contact Form.zip

1. Create the VIEW in cake/app/views/contact/contact.ctp

PLAIN TEXT
PHP:
  1. <?php if (isset($success)) { ?>
  2.     <p><?= $success?></p>
  3. <?php } else { ?>
  4.     <?php if (isset($error)) { ?>
  5.         <p><?= $error?></p>
  6.     <?}?>
  7.     <?php echo $form->create(null,array('action' => 'contact', 'enctype' => 'multipart/form-data')); ?>
  8.     <p>
  9.         <?php echo $form->label('Page.name','Name: ',null); ?>
  10.         <?php echo $form->text('Page.name', array('size' => '25'))?>
  11.     </p>
  12.     <p>
  13.         <?php echo $form->label('Page.email','Email: ',null); ?>
  14.         <?php echo $form->text('Page.email', array('size' => '25'))?>
  15.     </p>
  16.     <p>
  17.         <?php echo $form->label('Page.message','Message: ',null); ?>
  18.         <?php echo $form->textarea('Page.message', array('cols' => '40', 'rows' => '10'))?>
  19.     </p>
  20.     <p>
  21.         <?php echo $form->submit('Send email')?>
  22.     </p>
  23.     <p>
  24.         All fields are required!
  25.     </p>
  26.     <?php echo $form->end();?>
  27. <?php }?>

2. Create Email COMPONENT, cake/app/controllers/components/email.php

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PHP:
  1. <?php
  2. class EmailComponent extends Object {
  3.     function email($email, $name, $message) {
  4.         $f_mail = "name@domain.com";
  5.         $f_name = "WebMaster domain.com";
  6.         $f_message = "\nName : $name"; // start building the message
  7.         $f_message .= "\n\nE-mail : $email";
  8.         $f_message .= "\n\nMessage \n : $message";
  9.         $headers = "From: www.domain.com <administrator@domain.com>\n";
  10.         $headers .= "X-Sender: <admin @domain.com>\n";
  11.         $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n";
  12.         $headers .= "Reply-To:$f_mail\n\n";
  13.         $subject = "Message from your website domain.com";
  14.         mail ( "$f_mail", "$subject", "$f_message", $headers ); // send the email
  15.     }
  16.    
  17.     // this function checks to see if the email supplied by the visitor is a valid one
  18.     function validMail($email) {
  19.         $pattern = "^[-_.[:alnum:]]+@((([[:alnum:]]|[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]-]*[[:alnum:]])\.)+(ad|ae|aero|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|arpa|as|at|au|aw|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|biz|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|com|coop|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|edu|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gov|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|in|info|int|io|iq|ir|is|it|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|mg|mh|mil|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|museum|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|name|nc|ne|net|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nt|nu|nz|om|org|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|pro|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|re|ro|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|sj|sk|sl|sm|sn|so|sr|st|su|sv|sy|sz|tc|td|tf|tg|th|tj|tk|tm|tn|to|tp|tr|tt|tv|tw|tz|ua|ug|uk|um|us|uy|uz|va|vc|ve|vg|vi|vn|vu|wf|ws|ye|yt|yu|za|zm|zw)|(([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5])\.){3}([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5]))$";
  20.         // the regex for an email addres
  21.         if (eregi ( $pattern, $email ))
  22.             $ll = 1; else
  23.             $ll = 0;
  24.         return $ll;
  25.     }
  26. }
  27. ?>

3. Create the CONTROLLER, cake/app/controllers/contact_controller.php

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PHP:
  1. <?php
  2. class ContactController extends AppController {
  3.     var $uses = array ( );
  4.     var $components = array ('Email' );
  5.     var $name = 'Contact';
  6.    
  7.     function contact() {
  8.         $this->pageTitle = 'Contact';
  9.         if (! empty ( $this->data )) {
  10.             $email = $this->data ['Page'] ['email'];
  11.             $name = $this->data ['Page'] ['name'];
  12.             $message = $this->data ['Page'] ['message'];
  13.             $error = 0;
  14.             // start filter vars
  15.             if (strlen ( trim ( $email ) ) <3) {
  16.                 $error = 1;
  17.             }
  18.             if (strlen ( trim ( $message ) ) <4) {
  19.                 $error = 1;
  20.             }
  21.             // verify email address
  22.             if ((strlen ( trim ( $email ) ) <3) || ($this->Email->validMail ( $email ) == 0)) {
  23.                 $error = 1;
  24.             }
  25.             if ($error == 0) {
  26.                 $this->Email->email ( $email, $name, $message ); //here is the email sent
  27.                 $this->set ( 'success', 'The message was sent <br />Thank you!' );
  28.                 // setting "succes" variable for displaying if email was sent.
  29.             } else {
  30.                 $this->set ( 'error', 'Please complete all fields' );
  31.                 // this is in case of error
  32.             }
  33.         } else {
  34.         }
  35.     }
  36. }
  37. ?>

FINALLY
After all that just test it in your favorite web browser http://localhost/cake/contact/contact

Tags: php4, cakephp, code example

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CakePHP: How To Make Controller Without a Model?

Posted in cakephp by ruru on the February 8th, 2008
PLAIN TEXT
PHP:
  1. class MyController extends AppController
  2. {
  3.     // var $uses = null; works too, BUT MIGHT INTRODUCE BUGS
  4.     var $uses = array();
  5.  
  6.     function index()
  7.     {
  8.     }
  9. }

From: http://cakebaker.42dh.com/

Tags: php4, cakephp, code example

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CakePHP: How to Add Theme Support?

Posted in cakephp by ruru on the February 7th, 2008

Now with CakePHP v1.2 (beta) we can easily add theme with its ThemeView class.
This guide about how to add theme into fresh CakePHP installation will be explained in very basic step-by-step . I learn it frrom here.
Updated: sample code provided

Download code example, extract inside CakePHP root.

First!
Create a file called app_controller.php inside cake\app\controllers.
Create CakePHP AppController
Edit the file and just with two lines of code, add theme support on your application:

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PHP:
  1. class AppController extends Controller {
  2.     var $view = 'Theme';
  3.     var $theme = 'default';
  4. }

Second!
You need to put all your theme collections inside a folder called themed instead views. This folder doesn't exists yet, so go to cake\app\views and create new folder themed inside it.
Create themed folder inside view

Third!
Create another folder called default inside cake\app\views\themed, and place all your template files there.
This theme name is taken from

PLAIN TEXT
PHP:
  1. var $theme = 'default';

We can just create another folder and activate it very easily thanks to ThemeView class.

That's it now you have an application that support theme. Easy?! Yea, that was sooo Cake :)

Tags: php4, cakephp, code example

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CakePHP: How To Make Model Without a Table?

Posted in cakephp by ruru on the February 6th, 2008
PLAIN TEXT
PHP:
  1. class ModelWithoutTable extends AppModel
  2. {
  3. var $useTable = false;
  4. }

From: http://cakebaker.42dh.com/

Tags: php4, cakephp, code example

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