The Auth Component in CakePHP redirects the user to the log-in page when a user tries to access any protected pages in the application. The default log-in page is set by defining the loginAction variable in the beforeFilter function in your UsersController or AppController. But if you have used plug-ins in your application, and if a user tries to access...

A very basic tutorial. For the beginners who want to pass array values from PHP to Javascript for them to be accessible in the client side JS as an array. It’s really easy to pass PHP array to Javascript. The below code passes a string array in PHP to Javascript. <?php $arr = array("a","b","c"); ?> <script> var...

Sometimes, or very rarely we might need to access a model in AppController (Application Controller). This could be for fetching values from a table and make it available for all the controllers in the application (AppController is inherited by all the other controllers). Also, often we need to access models that are not associated with a controller. I...

Developers normally use functions that use Regular Expression to convert under_scored strings in to CamelCased strings. Usage of Regular Expression is quite heavy. We can use a simple yet powerful method to convert these strings to CamelCase without using RegEx in PHP. Here is the method: echo join(””, array_map(“ucwords”, explode(‘_’,...

PHP Encountered Access Violation at [some random memory address] Many of the guys who asked me about this problem faced it when trying to run PHPMyAdmin or other applications which access database, after setting up a local PHP environment on their machine under IIS. Try these fixes. Add your PHP path (the location of PHP files in your machine) to the...

Often, we come across situations where we need to INSERT multiple rows in to a database table from an Array, File or even from another Database Table. I am explaining various methods for inserting multiple rows using a single query using MySQL and PHP. MySQL documentation says you can use the following methods to speed up inserts: If you are inserting...

Convert XML to Array in PHP using  SimpleXML Though I would suggest using DomDocument for parsing XML strings and files in PHP, here is an example of converting XML to an Array in PHP using SimpleXML method. The SimpleXML extension in PHP provides a very simple and easily usable toolset to convert XML to an object that can be processed with normal...

A small article for those who want to experience with Regular Expressions in PHP. Regular expressions, also referred to as regex or regexp, provide a concise and flexible means for matching strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Regular expressions are used by many text editors, utilities, and programming languages...