December 17, 2008

coming from symfony you learn to be real comfortable with your debug toolbar and all it’s nifty secrets. Cake on the other hand seems to want to clutter the screen and break ajax layouts. So I whipped up a nifty solution which expands on snook’s styles idea and mixes in some jquery to avoid the pesky popup when using firebug.

the solution is not without it’s drawbacks. you have to add a div wrapper to some arcane cakephp dbo file (which generates the log output) so you can get a handle on it. but the advantage to patching that file is that you can now interact with the info in a tidy div (which makes snooks solution work in IE, rather than the blob in the middle of the page).

I will post some code for you folks later, and some instructions.

first post

I tried to start this cakephp blog before but got sidetracked by another symfony project so here we go, finally. I hope to cover the wonders and oddities of the cakephp framework as i struggle my way through various projects using it.

I’ve written my own frameworks in the past, and used symfony framework for many projects and right now I am knee deep in cake for a current project and there are lots of pluses to cake, and lots of questions about why it works like it does sometimes.

so i will record some of the whiz bang for you and if it’s handy it’s handy, if not.. don’t you have some code to write anyways?