Although cake takes good care of the basic CRUD functionality, I often need to do one more thing with my data. And that's filtering it. Or "searching", if you like it more that way.

What happens when you wait for half an hour to delete one row in your database? Investigation!

Ever wondered how to make a route which has no controller/action name yet doesn't break your existing routes?

NetBeans is the best PHP IDE out there, and Vim is the best general purpose text editor. What happens when you combine them?

A lot of people tend to ask questions like plonkers. Therefore, I give you this guide to help you out in such situations. This guide is related to CakePHP, but it can be applied to virtually everything.

This question seems to pop up every now and then. Making a model without a table is actually very easy.

I will try to list and review some of the tools I use every day to develop stuff with CakePHP. Most of these will be familiar, but hopefully you'll also find something new to add to your armoury.

I've started intensifying my work on NeutrinoCMS again, and this is a sneak peek at the new ACL implementation. Or, a story of how I kicked ACL's ass.

This question pops out often, and the solution is very simple.

Sometimes you want to go avoid Cake's automagic password hashing for miscellaneous purposes, like additional validation, password strength tests and other things. This is very easy to accomplish.

No, I am freaking serious. I will compare your framework, mom, dad, anything..for a fee.

I've started working on a FusionCharts plugin for CakePHP. Lo and behold the first release.

Started messing around with NetBeans 6.5 recently, and this is my impression.

Smashing Magazine has smashed a list of "advanced tips" for PHP. Let's see..

Every now and then, a question of "weird password issue" with CakePHP comes up, with the symptom of password hash being displayed in the password form field.

For those who want to use the MediaView for downloads only, this is a simple alternative with no worries about MIME type.

Although I won't be needing it any time soon, I've decided to create a tiny CoalesceBehavior, utilizing the SQL COALESCE function.

It seems like CakePHP is getting more and more popular, and we all know why.

While rewriting bits of NeutrinoCMS, I've noticed a slight error in judgment on my behalf. I was following what I consider to be bad code formatting, though some will surely disagree.

Sometimes you just don't want to index/crawl parts of your site. Learn how to automate this with CakePHP and robots.txt

This is really starting to be annoying, but it is also showing how much one can evolve by learning CakePHP in more detail.

Since this question has been asked many times, here it is in a form of short tutorial. Hopefully someone will find it useful.

How would you know if CakePHP is good for you? What do you need to start baking?

It seems like people still have problems with EmailComponent, so here's a short tutorial.

Due to some issues with my downloads, I've decided to try MediaView. Too bad for me.

My ancestors wanted me to work with CakePHP. Why? Read on...

I've decided to make my "remember me" feature a bit better by creating a component.

It seems like I might get a chance to promote CakePHP at work.

There has been some discussion on who should be the lead developer of CakePHP. Here is my 2c.

While developing Neutrino, I've decided to implement a simple hitcount behavior. So here it is.

A simple yet effective way to store your settings in the database and make them available everywhere.

Last night, I ran into a slight problem with my forms and submitting articles on my dev platform. It seems like the problem lies in Cake's own FormHelper...

I've seen this question asked over and over again: should I use 1.1 or 1.2 beta? Well, here it is once and for all.

It seems like the Cake community has some issues with snobs and noobs and no one is winning. What a splendid thing indeed.

There have been some posts and numerous questions on how to implement the "remember me" checkbox on user login. It seems like I've managed to accomplish this. It may not be the best way to do it, but it works.

Creating a content editor with has never been easier. All you need is Markdown and dp.SyntaxHighlighter!