CakePHP themes 1 minute HOWTO

Did you that it only takes a minute to start using themes for your CakePHP application? No? It's just these steps you need to start using themes:

1. In your (app)controller: var $view = 'Theme';
2. In your (app)controller: var $theme = 'orange';
3. Or from a function: $this->theme = 'orange';

That's it! You can now create custom views and layouts for this theme under /app/views/themed/orange. Below that folder you should use the same structure as under /app/views. For example, create a file /app/views/themed/orange/layouts/default.ctp.

So, if theme-specific files exist in themed folders, these will be used, else, CakePHP switched back to the default layouts and views.

You can also create custom CSS and JS files under /app/webroot/themed/orange/css and /app/webroot/themed/orange/js.

Pretty easy huh...

Did you already use themes?

Adobe Browserlab for webdevelopers

Adobe has created Browserlab. It seems to be some kind of browsershots.org and it claims to be realtime. Probably worth trying. Take a look!

Tiny CakePHP Plugin

Tim Trice has released a plugin to shorten urls. This enables you to create your own url shortener like tinyurl.

Link: http://www.timtrice.com/tiny-cakephp-plugin/