Writing

• Code Coverage in CakePHP 1.2 Test Suite

  Apr 30 2008

  Super fresh in the SVN builds of CakePHP 1.2 is the new code coverage analysis. If you are living on the bleeding edge of cake development or just want a preview of the neat things to come once 1.2 is complete read on.

  The guys at debuggable have contributed a fantastic tool to the testing suite for CakePHP 1.2.

  • PHP, CakePHP, Web Development, Xdebug, testing,
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• Hacking the Form Helper and Editing Multiple Rows with CakePHP 1.1

  Apr 26 2008

  CakePHP 1.2 is a fantastic improvement over 1.1. However like many, my work has a stable release only policy. So I’m stuck using 1.1 at work for the time being. But after drinking the 1.2 juice, 1.1 is missing some of the potent automagic flavours. First up editing multiple rows in models. The stock syntax is lacking in that it doesn’t support this at all.

  • PHP, CakePHP, Hacking,
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• CSS Resets and why I love them

  Apr 20 2008

  I’ve been a bit out of the loop due to the awesome weather we’ve been having in toronto as of late. I’ve just read through Jonathan Snook’s article about CSS resets and how he doesn’t use them and while I can totally understand his position and how he is okay with browser variances and typographic quirks.

  • Web Design, CSS,
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• Understanding MVC and CakePHP

  Apr 20 2008

  Continuing with the trend of CakePHP information here, I’m going to cover some of the acronyms and lexicon of CakePHP. I hang out a lot on #cakephp and there are repeating trends in some of the questions that get asked so hopefully I can answer some of those questions here. As well as provide a bit of my personal experiences.

  • PHP, CakePHP, Web Development,
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• Fancy routing examples with CakePHP 1.2

  Apr 15 2008

  Routing in CakePHP is quite flexible in how you can route your urls to your controllers and actions. Offering both variable replacement and regex routing. You can route almost any parameter that is set by dispatcher and more. So lets try a few of these.

  • Web Development, CakePHP, PHP,
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• Geshi Helper for CakePHP

  Apr 05 2008

  GeSHi or the Generic Syntax Highlighter is a simple yet powerful syntax highlighter for many languages. Implemented in many CMS. When I wanted syntax highlighting for my postings I decided to implement GeSHi. I wanted to share my implementation of GeSHi as a CakePHP helper.

  • PHP, Javascript, CakePHP, MooTools, CSS, Web Development, Geshi,
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