milesjohnson

So I recently got tired of having to manually set debug to 0 every time I updated an old site or published a new one. So I thought, why not have it automatically turn off when the site is live? For this to work, I'm assuming that you are working on a localhost with an IP of 127.0.0.1. Continue reading...

When I first started using CakePHP, I couldn't find a way to pre-populate a form with data. Why would I need this you ask? Well its simple, it would be used to edit something already existent. So what I need to do is grab the data from the database, and then populate the form. Took me a few hours to figure out how to do it, the guide really didn't explain how it should be done (or I just overlooked it). To have the data populate, all you need to do is to set $this->data to the database result. Continue reading...

I recently convinced my friend to start learning CakePHP and to install XAMPP for windows. Everything was going smoothly up until he needed to have the database engine InnoDB enabled. Here's a very quick tutorial on how to enable InnoDB on Windows XAMPP (might also work with other local servers). Continue reading...

It is now time for my second post, in my series of "Basic/Common PHP functions that all programmers should know". The first series was about basic PHP strings and with this issue I am going to tackle 5 more functions for date and time. As always, I try to make my functions short but powerful, enjoy! Continue reading...

Recently I was working on a project, where a certain controller had over 15ish+ different models. The problem is that each action needed a different model, and I didn't want to load all those models at once. Here's how to load models, specific to certain actions. Continue reading...