Month: February 2017

Responding to HTTP OPTIONS requests in CakePHP

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I recently needed to add  Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers to resources on an API developed with CakePHP. There’s a good description of how to accomplish this from ThinkingMedia in 2015, but it uses DispatcherFilters, which have since been deprecated in favour of Middleware. The $request  and $response objects available to middleware have different interfaces than those retrieved from the event data in the … [Read more…]

Stacking sections in Laravel Blade templates

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With Laravel’s Blade templating engine, it is possible to stack multiple sections with the same name throughout a template, and yield them all together in one place. This is particularly useful if you have multiple partial views that each need to append some JavaScript to a  <script> tag at the end of your page, for instance. tl;dr … [Read more…]