If it is in a freshly baked project you are still using the default layouts that contain the adverting banner. You never run a production application using those defaults, so don't sweat it. It's not unreasonable for the Cake team to want to promote monetising services to help fnd the free software you just downloaded ;-)
As far as the 1px gif - I'm guessing, but that is probably some sort of click tracking; again, this is standard practice for many companies and not unreasonable. Jeremy Burns Class Outfit http://www.classoutfit.com On 19 Oct 2011, at 08:04, Azrael wrote: > Today before I connect to internet, I started my browser and go to my new > local baked project and got this strange screen. Firefox can’t connect > tocakephp.org! > > It is a local project so Why should it try to connect to cakephp.org. I look > at source and found this iframe : > > <iframe src="http://cakephp.org/bake-banner"; width="830" height="160" > style="overflow:hidden; border:none;"> > <p>For updates and important announcements, visit http://cakefest.org</p> > </iframe> > > > That contain : > > <img src="http://cakephp.org/img/banners/cakephp-training-soon-201110.png"; > alt="CakePHP Training - Coming soon!"/> > > > That points to a 1*1 px Gif picture!!! > > why a 830*160 iframe for a 1*1 Gif picture? And why placing an iframe that > load external content in cakephp code? > > I really don’t like this way of advertising in my project so would anyone > explain it? > > Screenshots: > http://up.vatandownload.com/images/gb3futzl00qovy8s3n44.png > http://up.vatandownload.com/images/ljayi6dl5zqv9g7lakr.png > http://up.vatandownload.com/images/5jl79qi4rr2okzhkwc8e.png > > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
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