Sometimes people forget. Usually it is when they need to get into their account or behind the nice ACL system you have setup. So, how do you handle the forgotten passwords? Read the rest of this entry »

Getting used to the Models, Views and Controllers can be a headache when first stepping into a framework that operates like this. It is one of the first hurdles to get over, that is why you see people commenting that ‘once they understood Cakephp it was simple’ to work with. Read the rest of this entry »

My latest little project has needed some automation to take it beyond me visiting a link everyday. I wanted to have a script that I had built in CakePHP just run at intervals, so that I wouldn’t have to manually run it. I was pointed in the direction of Cron a “… a time-based scheduling service in Unix-like computer operating systems” (link). Setting it up to run with CakePHP was rather simple, so lets see how. Read the rest of this entry »