JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a text-based way of representing JavaScript object literals, arrays, and scalar data. It is language independent, self-describing, and plain text. It is a good solution for transferring data between systems because it is easy to read, write, and utilize.
CakePHP has built-in functions to serve data as JSON, making it trivial to allow access to data within an application or across the internet.
initialize(), just like the Timestamp Behavior.There are many file upload plugins for CakePHP (See https://github.com/friendsofcake/awesome-cakephp#file-manipulation ) and they have lots of features. But all I want to do is to simply attach documents to my model and ensure they don't clobber one another so I created my own basic functionality that meets my needs without any added overhead.
Sometimes you need to disable a users account, without deleting the account and the information related to that account. That's why previously in Controller and Views there was a user role named "Disabled." You can set the role to Disabled currently, but it doesn't do anything. Now we're going to change that.
In our Database and Model tutorial we covered a very simple example to create a slug for use with a record. One problem with this example is that it doesn't create unique slugs, and since our database requires unique slugs, this could become an issue with two users having the same first and last name.
There may come a time when you have a form that has optional requirements. By that I mean that depending on a previous selection, future selections may become required, or not.
A simple method I've found to do this is with jQuery on the front end and no validation requirements on the back end. An example follows:
NOTE: I no longer have access to an Oracle database, however, from what I can tell it all works the same with CakePHP 5 as it did with CakePHP 4.
CakePHP 5 does not provide core support for Oracle databases. An Oracle database driver plugin is available from CakeDC here: https://github.com/CakeDC/cakephp-oracle-driver
It's almost as easy as following the directions there, but there are a few "gotchas" with Oracle.