Several new tutorials, components, news and helpers have been posted to The Bakery, the CakePHP community site lately. Here's a sampling:

• CakePHP on IIS6 with FastCGI, SQL Server 2005, and ISAPI_Rewrite
• Filter Out Unnecessary Recursive Relationships
• Twitter Component
• Chartable Behavior
• Increment Behavior
• markItUp! jQuery universal markup editor Helper
• The CakePHP Blog Tutorial with SMARTY
• Vendor Branching
• CakePHP 1.2 stable coming soon

Check out The Bakery for more great CakePHP-related goodness.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted a new tutorial (from Matthew Weier O'Phinney) about a handy feature of the Zend Framework's view layer - view helpers that can be added in and reused across an application to do some pretty cool stuff.

A View Helper is simply a class that follows particular naming conventions, When attached to a view object, you can call the helper as if it were a method of the view object itself. The View object retains helper instances, which means that they retain states between calls.

View helpers can be use to do things like manipulate view data for more complex operations and carrying over data between two views, limiting the number of fetches that have to be done. He shows how to create a simple helper - My_Helper_FooBar - that just appends "fooBar " to whatever's passed in. He also talks about some of the default view helpers (like form fields), partials, the doctype() helper, capturing/caching content to be used later and the use of placeholders.

The Bakery has posted tons of great content lately - here's just a sample:

• Image Magick Resize Helper
• MySQL collation behavior
• Lorem Ipsum
• jQuery autocomplete Helper
• CakePHP on IIS6 with FastCGI, SQL Server 2005, and ISAPI_Rewrite

Check out the rest of the site for more great CakePHP tips, tricks and helpers.

On the Zend Developer Zone, there's a article posted from Matthew Weir O'Phinney spotlighting one of the handy features of the Zend Framework - Action Helpers.

Action Helpers in Zend Framework are often considered a fairly arcane subject, something for experts only. However, they are meant to be an easy way to extend the capabilities of Action Controllers, negating the need to create your own base controller with custom functionality. The aim of this tutorial is to show you how to quickly and easily create and use Action Helpers to your advantage.

He covers some of the basics - setting up a controller to extend Zend_Controller_Action - and assigning helpers to it. He looks hat hooking in events, registering and retrieving the helpers with a Broker and how to create your own custom helper. Their example is a form loader that lest you load the code for a form by submitting its class name.

The Bakery (the CakePHP repository) has posted lost of great new content to their site recently. Here's just a taste:

• Pagination Recall
• Subdomaining with Cake
• Using your application svn revision number
• What's Up, Docs?
• Automatic JavaScript and CSS Packer
• Baking with Markdown and dp.SyntaxHighlighter
• Attachments
• DarkAuth - another way...
• Testing Components with CakePHP 1.2 test suite
• Cake PHP Rocks

Also be sure to check out the rest of The Bakery for more great CakePHP-related articles, tutorials and helpful hints.

This new post from Jon Lebensold (on the KillerPHP blog) introduces you to a handy feature of the Zend Framework - View Helpers.

In summary, View Helpers are great for encapsulating forms, grids and other functionality that could eventually be bound to a different data source or even be pushed back to the user through a simple AJAX call.

Example code on how to use them is included showing a sample helper that adds Ajax functionality to a form's submit and pushes the response values back out into a div on the page.

The Bakery (for the CakePHP framework) has several new articles/helpers/components they've posted about lately - here's the list:

• CakePHP on IIS
• Yahoo! Weather Component
• ACL Management Plugin
• Visualize - Generate a graphic of your models/tables
• Tree Helper
• New Year, New Beta

Check out The Bakery for more information on these and other great CakePHP-related items.

The Bakery (the CakePHP repository) has posted a few new things recently with topics ranging from Javascript helpers to new behaviors. Here's the latest:

• JSMin Helper Compress and cache javascript
• Yahoo weather component
• Using JpGraph
• Protip Helper
• Breadcrumb helper
• Showing a text excerpt around multiple keywords
• ConditionalValidation behavior
• CakeSWXPHP

As always, you can find these and lots more great CakePHP-related content over on The Bakery.