Learn CakePHP 3 Advanced Techniques

Implement a custom captcha in CakePHP 3 by creating a capture component that generates a random number, stores it in session, and validates user input.

Explore cakephp csrf protection with the csrf component, using the form helper's hidden fields and csrf tokens to prevent cross-site request forgery in web applications, including ajax and api endpoints.

Explore a real-world CakePHP 3 example using Ajax and csrf tokens, diagnose a 403 forbidden due to token mismatch, and learn how to fix the request flow.

Learn to enable ajax in cakephp 3 with the csrf component by configuring the X-CSRF-Token header and cookie token, and updating the HTTP request to include it.

Explore logging theory in CakePHP 3 by configuring loggers in bootstrap, using the log shortcut function, and understanding log levels from emergency to debug for errors.

Learn CakePHP 3 advanced techniques by building a logging feature: submit log messages via a form, read logs from files with a custom component, and configure file log levels.

Create and configure a custom database logger for CakePHP 3, implementing a log adapter to store events in a dedicated database table without changing controllers.

Learn how to integrate DataTables in CakePHP 3 to display a customers table with pagination, search, and sortable columns, by loading the model, initializing data, and wiring the view template.

Explore CakePHP 3 associations, including has many, belongs to, has one, and many-to-many, via the initialize method and conventions, with examples using articles, comments, authors, and users.

Explore how has one associations link users to addresses through a foreign key in the addresses table, with conventions, overrides, and cascade deletes.

Define belongs to associations in CakePHP 3 by configuring foreign keys in the addresses table to access related user data, using array syntax, class name, and join conditions.

Explore belongs to many associations in CakePHP 3, using a join table to link articles and stocks. Follow convention to name the join table and define foreign and target keys.

Learn eager loading of associations in CakePHP 3 using containments, nested arrays, and dot notation to fetch authors and comments with joins and improved query performance.

Explore CakePHP associations in action by linking countries and cities with a hasMany relationship, loading countries and their cities, and displaying a selected country's cities.

Apply the time helper in a CakePHP 3 advanced technique to format time fields from the database, displaying year, month, day, hours, minutes, and seconds consistently in the view.

Demonstrates diagnosing an integer overflow in CakePHP 3 when displaying a large amount, caused by 32-bit int limits, and fixing it by updating the field to bigint.

Discover helper classes and reusable behaviors in the CakePHP 3 model layer, including counter cache, timestamp, translate, and tree structures for nested categories.

Learn to build your custom behavior in CakePHP 3 and create a custom finder that returns customers by a credit limit, keeping code dryer, smarter, and elegant.