James McDonald

Handy snippet to include your loaded plugin list in a view // templates/Pages/help.php <tr> <th>Loaded Plugins</th> <td> <?= Text::toList(Plugin::loaded()) ?></td> </tr> Walah!

I have been trying to do a Youtube video coding a CakePHP 4 with Authentication / Authorization using RequestAuthorizationMiddleware tied into CakeDC/auth RBAC After multiple tries I'm just posting it as is. I learnt I'm not currently a video editor. It includes 00:00...

Transfer a WordPress site between Live and Development environments or domains using the command line Take a database backup mysqldump --databases wpdb -uroot -p > wp.sql From LIVE to Development Environment sed -ibak...

I recently upgraded to Windows 11 and installed latest Nvidia Game ready driver and am now noticing Google Chrome displays a black screen or switches between that and normal. Can't use Chrome How to work-a-round Google Chrome screen flashing black or all black Start...

This is my version of PHP. installed with choco install php. Notice no Xdebug php -v PHP 8.1.6 (cli) (built: May 11 2022 08:56:01) (NTS Visual C++ 2019 x64) Copyright (c) The PHP Group Zend Engine v4.1.6, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies Goto downloads for xdebug here...

If you have ever wondered why sometimes your cake dd() output looks like this: And then other times looks like this: The reason is that the CakePHP/Repl plugin uses symfony/var-dumper and this package has a version of dd() that loads its own version of dd() so the...

If you try the bin/cake bake policy command and get "Could not find a task named policy." bin/cake bake policy Could not find a task named `policy`. Make sure CakePHP Authorization is installed and then add the following to src/Application.php public function...

Just upgraded to Windows 11 and my WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) instance is visible in Windows Explorer _and_ it has the Penguin logo...

Download and install Veeam agent for Windows Community Edition https://www.veeam.com/agent-for-windows-community-edition.html If the upgrade fails you can roll back and try again later (my desktop that I write this post on was unbootable after the first upgrade and I...

Ever wondered what extensions you have installed and want to keep a list? This actually is a good way to audit your currently installed extensions and then weed out the ones you no longer need or don't use code --list-extensions # output...