Aidan Lister

CakePHP’s automatic hashing makes things a lot harder than they need to be, and simple tasks (e.g. a registration page) become annoyingly difficult.

Here, we build a complete community based website in five minutes using Cake best practices, with the following features:

• Account registration
• Login and logout
• Account management page
• Password retrieval

CakePHP is a wonderful framework, but it really drops the ball when it comes to practical error management. In production environments (DEBUG = 0), only 404 or 500 errors are displayed to the user, and no errors are written to the log files.

To solve these two problems we override php’s error handler to enable production error logging, and cake’s error handler to allow forward facing error pages.