CakePHP Questions

hello guys i have been trying to create a simple admin panel without acl

just auth and cake admin router..

been trying to google and find the solution however none really supports what i want

something like /login and admin/products/add for basic...

i want to show different links for each logged in user any way.

link1          \
                \
link2 \          \
       \          \
link3   * manager  \
       /            * admin
link4 /            /
                  /
link5 \         ...

hi

i created a UNION view in my database, which i intended to use in my cakephp project, but it seems that it cannot be recognize as a table, meaning that I cant call it from controller like any other table.

Does cakePHP support SQL views(NOT cake...

How do i deal with dependent combo boxes in the views with the form helper. For example:

Country Select Box (Choosing a country shall filter out the states of the selected country)

States Select Box

This should happen with the help of Javascript /...

Is it possible to use Google Calendar as a data source? I'm not sure how this would work: either the model connects to GC instead of the database, or a plugin or something abstracts the needed behavior?

Similarly, is it possible to use Google...

Im trying to work out how to best setup a friends relation for each user to have and belong to many friends and there will be system to send a friend request and for the other user to accept or deny.

I have looked around for an article talking...

How do I know if a request was made from ajax or it was a normal web request?

I just wanted to block off the view, if it wasn't an ajax request.

I'm using the PaginationHelper and in my view I need to set the class for the current page's link to "current number" and I also need to get rid of the | characters before and after the pages.

I can set the overall class but not the current page...

Hi guys,

I know that if I use $form-input(), the validation errors will be shown automatically. This is really neato, but at this moment, I need a different behavior. I want those validation errors shown like a validation summary on top of the...

I'm lazy and I want to save a line of code. :-) Plus, I don't want to repeat myself, and I'm just curious.

I have a heading which is the same as the page title. Is there a way to read the variable $title_for_layout from the view?

EDIT: I have found...