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These days my collegue Leonello and i had the necessity to print barcode label to stick on printed document for the documents management system we have developed in cakephp.
After googling have found this nice library:

http://chir.ag/tech/download/pdfb/

Some testing in pure php and decided that it's a cool system to use.

The integration in cakephp follows these steps:

1. From above page download PDFB Library - Compact Version - 136kb (For Production Use)
2. Extract all files in {Cakeroot}/vendors or {App}/vendors (See figure)
3. Edit line 10 in file pdfb.php
   PLAIN TEXT
   PHP:

   1. <?php
   2. /*
   3. +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
   4. |   Created by Chirag Mehta - http://chir.ag/tech/download/pdfb   |
   5. |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
   6. |                      For PDFB Library                           |
   7. +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
   8. */
   9.  
   10.   define('FPDF_FONTPATH','font/');

Your pdfb library is now working if you want you can test it so:
Create a controller to make a quick test

For explanation of standard pdf library functions go here

But we can make things better:

First of all create an helper object

Now create a layout for printing pdf

Now create the view

And finally modify your controller to reflect all changes

Thats all folks

When I have finished my first application I had the necessity to create an authorization system to control user access.
I have looked around and founded some very good system especially in the bakery repository.
But in my mind I was thinking at something very simple for management.
My idea was to have an approach by rules. A list of ordered rules with allow/deny actions.

As you can see it is very intuitive how the system works:

• The first rule allow all
• The second rule deny access to all actions of controllers that start with Cake
• The third rule allow access to Controller CakeLogin (All Actions)
• The fourth allow only the action changepwd of controller CakeUsers
• And last rule allow access to welcome page.

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This is in fact an excuse to write an article with some code snippets in it, just to see how it looks. This is based on the original tutorial that you can find at cakephp wiki

As you know we need to start our MVC project.

We create hello.php for the Model, hello_controller.php for the Controller and an index.thtml as View.

Because we really does not use any database table we may not create the hello.php file (no table no model), but need to inform the controller that we have no model. This is revised version of hello_controller.php.

Every time you need to use a controller not binded to any database table simply put the statement
var $uses = null;