Got caught with this one upgrading from an older version of CakePHP to 1.3

In your view, to add a css file to the $script_for_layout variable, you used to do this:

<?php $html->css("css_file", null, array(), false); ?>

In 1.3, you have to change this to:

Took me a little while to work this out so I'm blogging it here in the hopes it will help someone in the future:

Need to Contain your Paginated data?

in your controller:

$this->paginate = array(
	"contain"=>array(
		// usual contain array
	)
);
 
$this->set("data", $this->paginate("Model"));

For example, to bring back and paginate a User (id, first_name, last_name) and their Title (Mr, Mrs, etc.):

/app/users_controller.php

The Problem

There's a couple of things I wish were present in CakePHP's excellent HtmlHelper.

1. Links should automatically add a class to themselves when they are a) pointing to a resource in the same controller and b) pointing to themselves.
2. Able to show/hide themselves.

Why is #1 important? Imagine a primary navigation that runs across the top of a page:

Last nights GeekUp was a lot of fun. Finbarr's presentation on making Agile pay was very informative and my talk on CakePHP went off without a hitch (apart from a minor technical hiccup with the hardware at the start).

As my first presentation, I was looking to learn as much as I could from the experiance. Here's what I came away with: