Writing

• Book Review: CakePHP Application Development

  Sep 28 2008

  The folks at Packt Publishing were kind enough to send me a copy of their newly published book CakePHP Application Development to review. The book is authored by Ahsanul Bari and Anupom Syam, and is a quick read at 300 pages.

  • CakePHP, Web Development, Books, Review,
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• Providing Contextual Form Help with Mootools

  Sep 25 2008

  I like many webdevelopers build a lot of forms. Forms are the bread and butter of web applications, and while making forms is getting easier for developers, users often still have a hard time with them. In these circumstances it is necessary to give them a help above and beyond ‘password’.

  • PHP, Javascript, CakePHP, MooTools, CSS, Web Design, Practices and Habits,
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• Creating gracefully degrading javascript and enabling progressive enhancement

  Sep 21 2008

  Creating gracefully degrading Javascript and CSS is pretty simple these days. I’m sure this has been written about a million times over as well. However, I thought it would be worthwhile to share how I do it as well. Mainly, because in addition to AJAX and effects I use Javascript as a way of enabling different CSS selectors for elements.

  • Javascript, MooTools, Web Design, Practices and Habits,
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• Server up and down time

  Sep 21 2008

  Lately you may (but hopefully did not) have noticed this site being unavailable for long periods of time. It seems my hosting company has had quite the bit of trouble with the hardware running the VPS my account is hosted on.

  However, they are working on it and hopefully it becomes a thing of the past.

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• Acl Menu Component

  Sep 13 2008

  By now you’ve got an awesome Acl and Auth controlled app running. However, making navigation menus is a pain with dynamic, and variable permissions. Outside of making menu elements for each type of Aro and including them in your layout, there currently aren’t many options (at least none that I’m aware of). I was faced with this exact problem a while back, and couldn’t find a suitable solution, so I made one.

  • PHP, CakePHP, Web Development, Open Source, Auth, Acl,
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• Github hooked up

  Sep 13 2008

  As I post more and more code here, I’m finding it tedious to update all the various .zip files of code as I make changes. So I’ve taken a page from Tim and Felix and made an account at gitHub. This makes it easy for me and you to find the newest revision of whatever you may be looking for.

  • PHP, Open Source, Practices and Habits,
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• Auth and Acl - Automatically updating user Aros

  Sep 07 2008

  In my previous Auth and Acl tutorial I mentioned that I wasn’t including a way for users ARO to be automatically updated when a User’s group was updated. Well ‘hepper’ posted a patch to the AclBehavior in the comments to that article.

  • PHP, CakePHP, Auth, Acl,
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• CakePHP Easter eggs

  Sep 03 2008

  The documentation for CakePHP has grown in leaps and bounds since the creation of the cookbook. Today I wanted to look at a few methods and conventions that may not be crystal clear from reading the book or api.

  Object::_set().

  Object is the parent class for almost all other classes in CakePHP.

  • PHP, CakePHP, Web Development, Hacking,
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