Posts tagged PHP

I have recently been developing a new website which has found me in the position of writing a lot of session handling code. I came across the concept of logged out all sessions across multiple instances, and out came this CakePHP session flushing component stay... [+]

We had implemented a caching system for all find, pagination and pagination count methods with CakePHP. You can find a post on this here. The cache was expiring after every hour, however we failed to realise something. Our CMS system that we built allows posts... [+]

A site i was working with was using pagination quite extensively with lots of records and associations. This was producing unnecessary high load on the database and wait times on the production site. Caching had to be done. Unlike normal returned data from finds etc. Paginated... [+]

If you have just woken up from a 10 year long coma, you might realise that the internet has been dumbed down to 140 characters and services that offer “URL Shortening” are quite widely used. Well today, coma awakened or not, I will be writing... [+]

I first got into CakePHP roughly 3-4 months ago. It was a result of me dropping the Python & Django books and running back to the PHP world, which I was already familiar with. I simply didn’t have the time to wrap my head around... [+]

Hey everyone. Not so much a tutorial here, but more so a snippet of code to help some of you out. My problem was with the CakePHP tree component. The way that the tree organised data in CakePHP works is through establishing a neighbour like... [+]

My net is capped at a lame speed of 6kbs. That’s what happens when you try to enjoy content on the internet and live in Australia. So when i’m trying to get some documentation for my CakePHP project i end up waiting like 5minutes for... [+]

If you have been reading the blog lately you will of noticed that I have changed my development path from Django using Python to CakePHP, tada, using PHP. I spent quite alot of time attempting to elarn both Python and the Django framework together. Much... [+]

I love buying books. Taking one look at my bookcase makes this quite obvious. I do have quite a large selection of computer related books. I find that by reading into the subject matter, especially for programming, before acting on ideas or tasks provides a... [+]

This problem arose while i was trying to get a random phrase from a database into the <title> HTML elements across all views. Being fairly new to CakePHP i was overwhelmed by some people’s solutions to accessing models site wide. However they forgot what CakePHP... [+]