Goodbye Ibuildings, Hi Rhinofly

After being part of their highly skilled team for over 17 months I’ve decided to leave Ibuildings. I’d like to thank Ivo for believing in me and helping me out if needed.
I’ve learned a lot and it’s been a privilege to work there.
Starting the first of March I’ll be developing in ColdFusion and PHP at [...]

Developing in PHP with NetBeans 6.8

The problem:
I love Textmate as an editor period.
There are some things though that I started missing while developing:

Code completion
Inline documentation
instant error checking
debugging from my editor
must have strong syntax highlighting support (for dark themes like my favourite Sunburst)

So I started looking around for an IDE(or Editor) that would work for me and that I could adhere [...]

Installing xDebug 2.0.4 or 2.1 on OSX

In my previous post we installed the latest apache and php from source and now I’d like to install xDebug to it. As stated in the comments on the previous post, I like living on the edge, so I build it myself, instead of using packages like MAMP or XAMMP or using binaries.
With that out [...]

Installing PHP 5.2.8 on OSX Leopard 10.5.6

Because I travel a lot by train, it’s easy to have a local development environment with me. Because OSX Leopard contains Apache2 and PHP 5.2.6, I installed MySQL, ZF, PEAR, setup the vhost conf for apache and added the path to the ZF and PEAR libraries to /etc/php.ini. This seemed to work fine for a [...]

CakePHP site redesign for 1.2 release ?? !!

A week or 2 ago the appearance of the bin changed from to  .
Today Trac was offline for a couple of hours and when it came back looked like this:

Would this be the redesign for the CakePHP 1.2 release ??

CakePHP: Calling bake from every dev-app install folder

If you use a setup like I explained in my previous post calling the bake script involves a lot of typing with the core and app parameter paths.
If I want to call the bake script from the /Users/mwesten/Sites/dev/myapp cake app folder, it has to be done like this:

CakePHP: Central cake core install with multiple apps

When developing on my system I like to use only one version of the core files. If I update the core files from svn it gets updated for all apps I’m working on.
The way I’m using this is explained below:
In my web-root I do an svn export of cake latest:

cd /Users/mwesten/Sites
svn export https://svn.cakephp.org/repo/branches/1.2.x.x/ cake1.2.x.x

Now we [...]

CakePHP on OSX: Problem using Bake.php script

If you are getting the following errors while trying to bake something on osx 10.4:

"Warning: mysql_connect(): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through
socket ‘/var/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2) in
/Library/WebServer/Documents/development/bakery/cake/libs/model/dbo/dbo_mysql.php
on line 117"

try doing the following:

sudo ln -s /tmp /var/mysql

Or you could follow the instruction given by Apple: Mac OS X Server 10.4: Issues connecting PHP to MySQL

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.