PHP
Top 5 red flags of software development
svn had 2 very nice items: The top 5 red flags of software development: “Wouldn’t it be easy to…” (the hidden cost of change) “This shouldn’t take long” (artificial time frame) “Can you make this small change real quick?” (“small” and “quick”) “Before you finish X, could you do Y?” (the mental costs of interruption) [...]
CakePHP 1.2: “Model/field” in formhelper deprecated
As cakebaker states: The use of “Model/field” in the formhelper has been deprecated in CakePHP 1.2. In CakePHP 1.1 you would call: $form->input(’Post/title’); In CakePHP 1.2 this has to be written like: $form->input(’Post.title’);
Automatic updating Select boxes with Ajax
Othman Ouahbi has a very nice example on his blog on creating automatic updating select-boxes with Ajax. If you change the first select-box, it updates the next selectbox accordingly.
Nice writeup of Ajax use in CakePHP
Ahsanul Bari created a nice list of links to articles on the use of Ajax in CakePHP. Some of the parts covered are: Getting Started AutoComplete Ajax Redirect Ajax Validation Encoding Ajax Uploader So head over to Ahsan’s Laboratory and distover how to implement some nice ajax stuff in your web-app!
CakePHP 1.2: $html->link with html or image.
In CakePHP 1.1 if you need to display an image or piece of HTML with a link to an action, you need to instruct cake NOT to escape the contents of the “Title” attribute with the last false statement like this: e( $html->link( $html->image("add.gif"), array(’action’ => ‘add’), array(), null, false )); In CakePHP 1.2 you [...]
CakePHP 1.2: redirect method
Previously (in CakePHP 1.1) it was best to add an exit or return after you redirect method like: $this->redirect(’controller/action’); exit(); or $this->redirect(’controller/action’); return(); in CakePHP 1.2 this can be shortened to: $this->redirect(’controller/action’, null, true); See cakebaker on this too.
Drupal Stuff
