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...

Commentia v1.2 is now official released. This version comes with a settings system, in which you define in the model instead of editing the file manually. Continue reading...

So it has taken me nearly a year to get to this point. Over the past year I have been building some very advanced php classes and scripts that I wish to release as open-source. The types of scripts range from database handlers, template engines, form validation and cleaning, session management, CakePHP components and behaviors, so on and so forth. For the time being I'm releasing 3 scripts that I deemed "stable" and "complete". I hope you love them and get as much use out of them as I have. 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...