Writing

• Quick and dirty 'Down for Maintenance' page with CakePHP

  Jul 25 2008

  Websites need maintenance, and sometimes that maintenance requires the site to go down for a little bit as you tweak the database, add additional capacity or make large changes to the application code. In these circumstances you cannot afford to have users mucking about on your application. However, you might need access to ensure all your amazing upgrades go smoothly or perhaps do the upgrading inside the application itself.

  • PHP, CakePHP, Web Development,
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• Creating easy reports with pivot tables

  Jul 19 2008

  I’ve been working on a project that collects various surveys and stores the data very much like below.

  

  While this is a data structure is very normalized and provides a flexible base to build various surveys with. What it does not provide is an easy interface for building reports.

  • MySQL, SQL, Web Development,
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• Auth and ACL an end to end tutorial pt.2

  Jul 13 2008

  If you are looking for part one go here

  In the last article we created the basic models, controllers and views for our Auth and Acl controlled app as well as initialized the Acl tables. We also bound our groups and users to the Acl through the use of the AclBehavior.

  • PHP, CakePHP, Web Development, Auth, Acl,
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• Auth and ACL an end to end tutorial pt. 1

  Jul 07 2008

  Now, there are many tutorials out there for Auth and ACL in CakePHP. However, none of them (as far as I know of) cover putting together Auth and ACL from beginning to end. That is what I’m going to do in this article. I am splitting the article into two parts; the first about setting up our app and getting the Aros running, the second on building Acos and putting it all together.

  • PHP, CakePHP, Web Development, Auth, Acl,
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• Introducing the Webservice Behavior

  Jul 04 2008

  As webservices grow so does the need for being able to communicate with them in an easy fashion. This simple blog alone uses 2 webservices. The recent tracks at the bottom is a feed I pull from Last.fm and my spam protection is provided by Akismet. When first building my site I looked for an already built solution and found a partial solution in Felix Geisendörfer’s WebModel.

  • Web Services, Open Source, Web Development, CakePHP, PHP,
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