CakePHP Questions

How can I extend the core helpers ?

I need to use new options in function $form->create() and others methods in the Form helper.

Thank you,

Paolo

I created a helper function that automatically generates an image for me (using GD), writes it to a file in the images directory, and then returns an image tag for the image.

The generated image is a progress meter, so it is general enough to be a...

<?php echo $form->input('CategoriaAtendimento'); ?>

This echoes a list with all the items on CategoriaAtendimento, can any1 tell how do I echo a "checkbox list" instead? plz

I'm learn about cakephp and not find properties to set the pagination to keep the params into args url.

Example:

List users, ordered by name and I'm in second page, clicked in edit, data has edited and click to save, data has been saved! I want to...

Hi, I am wondering a explanation for the FormHelper enhancement of following url.

http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42648/13-migration-guide

It says:

Default urls generated by form helper no longer contain 'id' parameter.

I guess

Maybe...

I want a link with a span inside. like this: <a href=''>linktext

When I use this the span tags are converted to html entities(<span class="text"&gt)

$html->link($title . $html->tag("span", null, array('class' => 'welcome')), $url);

Is there any helper or plugin for blogging to use with cakePHP?

Hello,

I have a list of basketball players, whose numbers go from '00' to '99'. For this reason, I'm saving them as varchar on my database.

When I try to sort by Player.number, MySQL obviously sorts as varchar (1, 11, 12, 2, 20, ...).

Is there a way...

CREATE TABLE set_test(
    id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    myset SET('Travel','Sports','Dancing','Fine Dining')
  );

Form Helper automagic renders it as textarea (cakephp 1.2.6).

Is there a way to render myset as multiple...

I want to use a model (and a function of this model ) at my helper,how can I do that?

for example

{{{

$post = new Calendars();

$post->findArticlePostedThisMonth()

}}}

Hi:

I'm start using cakephp and i made a demo app using AjaxHelper

$ajax->link('title', 'url', array('update' => 'mydiv'))

Now i want to migrate that to cakephp 1.3 and AjaxHelper is deprecated on cake 1.3 and will be removed, so i want to...

I've created a shell task that I call from the crontab.

It works great except it breaks when I use the EmailComponent in conjunction with any helper. Example:

I use EmailComponent to send an email.

In views/elements/email/html/myemail.ctp I am using...

how to solve the following error ?

Notice (8): Undefined variable: javascript [APP\views\layouts\default.ctp, line 50

i have following the instructions on ajax helper in cakephp manual (7.1)

echo $javascript-link('prototype');echo...

Why can't I do this:

$this->Form->hidden("name", array("class"=>"someClass"));

FormHelper drops class name I want to pass. Why is it that way?

Hello,

When I put the following in my app_controller:

    var $components = array('Auth', 'Session');

I get no errors, and I can use the components.

But when I put the following:

    var $components = array('Auth', 'Session');
    var $helpers =...

ref:Inserting Well Formatted elements # css

Using cake 1.3, I'm trying to load scripts and css from a view or an element using inline=false. For instance, I have $this->Html->css ( 'adm-navigation', null, array('inline'=>false) ); in the...

Hi,

I use a link in my view as following:

<?php echo $html->link('Update list', '/controller/action/parameter'); ?>

But I would like to scroll the page displayed by this link to the anchor "#there" which is at the botton of the page.

I tried...

Help! I am trying to format numeric data in my view. I am attempting to use the $number-format(number,options) helper.

Can someone show me a real-world example of this function being used? It is used in the view, correct? I have made a ton of...

After I moved from a shared hosting to a VPS cake 1.3.2 does not load

custom helpers.

All core helpers are loaded, but not my custom helpers.

I my controller i have

public $helpers = array('Session', 'Html', 'Form', 'Access',

'Recaptcha');

When i try...