Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Migrating your cakePHP 1.1 application to 1.2 - Chapter 2 Model changes

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Please note that this article is intended for audiences that already have a decent understanding of the cakePHP frame work and essentially know where to look to make the necessary changes to the web application that you have already coded for the 1.1 framework. (more…)

Migrating your cakePHP 1.1 application to 1.2 - Chapter 1 Configuration Changes

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Please note that this article is intended for audiences that already have a decent understanding of the cakePHP frame work and essentially know where to look to make the necessary changes to the web application that you have already coded for the 1.1 framework. (more…)

Intro to CakePHP

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

CakePHP is an Open Source development framework, built largely on PHP, but also utilizing tools like Ajax for some visual flair. Primarily, though, it’s a Model-View-Controller (MVC) Framework, modeled after Ruby on Rails. (more…)

jscalendar & Internet explorer.

Friday, October 17th, 2008

If you use jscalendar in your projects you might want to read further. We use it a fair amount here as it is a good date picking tool and it plugs into the cakePHP framework really well. Anyway, there have been some reported bugs with this component with the proper placement of the calendar in Internet explorer 6 & 7. The problem arises when the calendar that is being generated is fairly close to edge of the displayable area. When you click on the element to bring the calendar up it is no where near where you clicked. The solution is fairly simple, but can be maddening to find and fix. Luckily someone already has. If you open the caledar.js file in the inlcuded files, just change the following lines (should be around line number 1393 and 1394). (more…)