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CakePHP: Auto populating foreign key dropdown fields

Posted Sun, 04/05/2009 - 11:45 by Richard

One of the neet features of CakePHP's scaffolding is that it automatically populates your foreign key (belongsTo, hasAndBelongsToMany) fields in your forms.

Lets take a look at a simple example to illustrate this:

app/models/article.php:

class Article extends AppModel {
	var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
		"Tag"
	);
}

app/models/tag.php:

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GeekUp Sheffield: The Aftermath

Posted Thu, 04/02/2009 - 09:01 by Richard

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:

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GeekUp Sheffield April 1st: CakePHP Presentation

Posted Sat, 03/28/2009 - 14:45 by Richard

GeekUp LogoNext Wednesday (ironically April 1st) I'll be doing a short (30 minute) presentation about the CakePHP framework to the good people at Sheffield GeekUp.

This is the first time I've ever done a 'proper' (ie. one that was planned and prepared) presentation and as you might expect I'm a bit jittery.

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Welcome to Richard@Home

Posted Sat, 03/28/2009 - 12:16 by Richard

Hi there :-)

Welcome the Richard@Home's new Drupal powered blog. If I have any regular readers left, you will have seen this site evolve through a few incarnations:

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