CakePHP’s security component is awesome. I use it all the time for its CSRF protection (Which will be the subject of a future post).
But sometimes, it does not work as expected. Frustration ensues.
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“Setter not found for property class” is one of the most frustrating errors you can get in a Seam / facelets project.
It usually appears late, and you spend a long time trying to solve it. The solution is so simple you have to bang your hand when you finally find it.
I write this in the hope that it shows first in Google searches for this error…
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CakePHP is in many ways an awesome framework. It does lots of things for you automagically, and makes development quite pleasant on most days. However, there are a few places where the framework displays irritating glitches.
One of those unlucky places is when you want to use an image as the submit button for your forms.
I am working on three projects at the same time. One of them is my paying job – a large bespoke development using JEE, Seam framework, Hibernate and a structured waterfall process that has gone all over the place as we’re nearing delivery to a fixed schedule (that, truth be told, was postponed for a few weeks…) The team is not huge – there are six developers and two testers, together with a DBA, an architect, a web designer, a BA and two project managers. Yes. Two.
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