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Lice Helper Launched

Recently finished and launched a new website for a client. The website advertises a lice removal service and provides means for potential customers to learn about the service and get in touch with the business quickly and easily. Lice Helper The site is built on a CakePHP application and actually uses Wordpress for the blog section of the site. It doesn't use Wordpress for any of the front end, but in the back end the standard Wordpress Dashboard is used to manage, edit, and write blog posts that are then displayed in the front end blog section. The site also utilizes my meta description and title components, that allow the application to manage those parts of the page independently of the page content. Basically it just ties a URL to a title or a description, matches them up when pages are requested, and if it finds a matching record it outputs it in the proper place. Otherwise it will output a sensible default text. I did enjoy working with CakePHP again as it's been some time. But all the things I liked about it still apply. It's still lightening fast from prototype to finished site, and design modifications couldn't be any simpler. All in all, good project, and I think the end result looks and works very well.

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CakePHP Getting Tree Path
Fri 25 July 2008
By Ben Snider

In Development.

tags: CakePHP

In a reversal of yesterday's post is today's, getting a path to a node, or nodes. Basically we just use the core getpath() function of the Tree behavior and traverse that path.
```
function setTreePath(&$data, $path='tree_path', $label='name') {
    if (!is_array($data) || !in_array('Tree', $this->actsAs)) {
        return $data ...
```
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CakePHP Tree Find By Path

Thu 24 July 2008
By Ben Snider

In Development.

tags: CakePHP

Wrote these little functions to help with finding tree nodes by specifying a path of values. For example if we had a tree of categories with similar names like TVs->Color and Movies->Color, we can't find by the category name since its not unique, but we can search ...
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CakePHP Lightbox Helper

Made a helper to output lightbox compatible links, since the core HTML helper was not working. Stick the following code in app/view/helpers/lightbox.php:

class LightboxHelper extends AppHelper {

    var $helpers = array('Html');

    function img($thumb, $full, $imgAttributes = array(), $linkAttributes = array()) {
        $defaultLinkAttributes = array('rel'=>'lightbox');
        $linkAttributes = array_merge($defaultLinkAttributes, $linkAttributes ...

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Using Radio Buttons with CakePHP

Tue 17 June 2008
By Ben Snider

In Development.

tags: CakePHP

There's sparse documentation on this topic so here I give some example usages. Say we have a Posts model like in most of the cake documents. Basically what we do is make an options array available to the template that contains the keys and values for the radio button ...
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