Archive for January, 2009

Autocomplete field with jQuery and PHP

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

For the recipe manager project I need to allow the entering of ingredients that the system does not know about. I decided to use an auto complete field to allow users to easily see what was already in the system. If the ingredient does not exist then the one they ...

jQuery solution to the add ingredient row problem

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Due to the fact that I could not find a reasonable solution within the CakePHP framework to add a new row of ingredient list inputs to recipe form I solved the problem using jQuery. This is the script. $('#add_ingredient_row').click(function() { // Clone the last row of the table. var clonedRow = $("#ingredient_list tr:last").clone(); // Generate an ...

MySQL Workbench

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Today I was going crazy trying to figure out a foreign key issue. So I found this great tool that reverse engineers a graphic model from sql statements. Very cool! It even outputs the model as an image.

Basic user authentication

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Today I got the basic user authentication going for the Recipe Manager using this tutorial. Users Controller class UsersController extends AppController { var $name = "Users"; //var $helpers = array('Html', 'Form'); function index() { } function beforeFilter() { $this->__validateLoginStatus(); } function login() { if(empty($this->data) == false) { if(($user = $this->User->validateLogin($this->data['User'])) == true) { $this->Session->write('User', $user); $this->Session->setFlash('You\'ve successfully logged in.'); $this->redirect('/recipes/'); exit(); } else { $this->Session->setFlash('Sorry, the information you\'ve entered is incorrect.'); exit(); } } } function register() { if (!empty($this->data)) { //Sanitize::clean($this->data); $this->data['User']['password'] = md5($this->data['User']['password']); $this->User->create(); // ...