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About Security:cipher and Suhosin patch

edgar.valar...@gmail.com (Edgar Valarezo) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 22:10:24 UT

Hi,
I was playing with cookies in my CakePHP powered LAMP box with the
Suhosin security patch, and I dicovered (better late than never) than
Suhosin add a srand() call before any rand(), so decrypt any text with
Security:cipher simply doesn't work. Thinking about that, maybe the
use of srand() and rand() in cipher method is wrong because is a hack

Re: HABTM help

zijn.digi...@gmail.com (cricket) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 22:42:39 UT

It may be a typo, but you're setting a variable $categories, but
referencing $category in the view.
$this->set('categories', $this->Job->Category->find('li st'));
And create the checkbox inputs like this:
<?= $form->input('Category', array('type' => 'select',
'multiple' => 'checkbox', 'label'=>'Categories'), $categories); ?>

Using virtual field with form helper in 1.3

anaxama...@gmail.com (Maximillian Schwanekamp) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 21:53:17 UT

How can I get a model virtual field to show up as the option text in a select generated by the form helper? Do I have to manually iterate?
Background... I have a User model identical to the Book example, with a virtual field for "name". Relevant snippet:
var $virtualFields = array(
'name' => "CONCAT(User.first_name, ' ', User.last_name)"

Re: Adding a new counter cache

rld0...@gmail.com (Brenda) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 21:32:07 UT

Oh, just for grins, decided to try and automate this. I have a
Configurations controller where I do some admin stuff for the site,
and I added this function:
function counterCheck( )
{
$counterTemplate =
"UPDATE :atable AS :amodel
SET :counter = (
SELECT COUNT(:model.id)

HABTM help

coast...@gmail.com (Ode) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 17:35:18 UT

I am working to build a job board with an admin side for adding jobs
and categories, and a front end for browsing and searching.
On the admin side I have a form for editing/creating jobs.
Each job needs to be able to be assigned to multiple categories. I am
assuming the best way to do this is through an HABTM association of

Re: Validation issues for Contact form (doesn't use database)

hyperfle...@gmail.com (Johnny Ferguson) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 21:07:52 UT

Having the form submit to the index() function worked brilliantly. To
my surprise, this enabled the automagic validation messages!
All I have to do now is style the messages with CSS, and I have the
trickiest part of my project done. I'll be sure to post a link to the
blog post I plan to write on this topic when it's finished. I found

CakePHP & Shindig

phpir...@gmail.com (Ma'moon) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 21:04:19 UT

Hello Cake Bakers :-)
Am planing to build a social application using CakePHP together with apache
project "Shindig", i tried to read about the integration between both
CakePHP and Shindig but couldn't really find any on google nor the cook
book, anyone did this before using CakePHP & Shindig? if anyone was

Re: Adding a new counter cache

rld0...@gmail.com (Brenda) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 20:50:30 UT

Thanks everyone. I'll go the SQL route. Just wanted to make sure I
wasn't missing something obvious!
...Brenda

Re: Validation issues for Contact form (doesn't use database)

j.andersen...@gmail.com (John Andersen) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 20:32:40 UT

You are welcome! :)
Another idea, which I do sometime use, is to let the index method
process the contact add request.
The way I recognise that the contact add form is the one to process,
is that I name each submit buttons specifically after what they do -
in the contact add form case, it would be named "doAddContact".

Re: Validation issues for Contact form (doesn't use database)

hyperfle...@gmail.com (Johnny Ferguson) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 20:27:44 UT

Ajax is definitely a working solution, but I'm somewhat leary of
requiring users to have javascript enabled (call me a purist :P)
An element is definitely a good idea. I'm still wondering if it would
be possible to pass data as part of a redirect. I've thought of
writing a function to create this functionality, but I'm not sure if

Re: Validation issues for Contact form (doesn't use database)

j.andersen...@gmail.com (John Andersen) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 20:21:01 UT

I would consider the use of an element to hold the contact form. Then
have the contact form presented in both views!
See [link] for the story on
elements :)
Later you may consider using an AJAX solution.
Enjoy,
John

Re: New to CakePHP

hyperfle...@gmail.com (Johnny Ferguson) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 20:05:21 UT

I accidentally hit reply to author, but for anyone else that visits
this thread:
Be sure to check out the Auth component:
[link]
It's dead simple using this to set up authentication. Coupled with the
ACL component, you have an unstoppable force on your hands.

Validation issues for Contact form (doesn't use database)

hyperfle...@gmail.com (Johnny Ferguson) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 19:48:21 UT

Hi,
I've poured over all the documentation I possibly can, and searched
the newsgroups, and haven't yet found a solution to my problem.
I'm creating a contact form which doesn't use any databases. As the
controller action never calls save(), I don't get any of the nice
automatic validation.
Here are my files:

Re: Problema con safe_mode y creacion directorio/subdirectorios

and...@gmail.com (andphe) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 19:08:01 UT

Hola,
No creo que sea posible pasar por encima del safemode, en caso de
poderse hacer sería un problema de seguridad en PHP, francamente yo le
recomendaría que busque un nuevo proveedor de hosting que no presente
este problema, o que le traslade la duda al soporte técnico.
Andrés

different types of Users

zijn.digi...@gmail.com (cricket) — Tue, 16 mar 2010 18:44:00 UT

I'm just starting on a site that will have several types of users and
am uncertain of the best approach to take. I'd like to hear from
others who have done something similar.
The site will have the following user types:
Administrators
Members
Affiliates
Admins may or not be Members. Affiliates will not be Admins nor