Dynamically Globally Changing the Database Connection in CakePHP 2.x I use this code in app/Model/AppModel.php to dynamically change my database environment in CakePHP 2.x depending where it is running <?php //app/Model/AppModel.php App::uses('Model', 'Model');...
If you, like me, haven't had formal programming training and would like to see how to properly code in PHP. Have a look at the source code to the Pheanstalk project. IANAP but to me it looks very clean and logical and very DRY (don't repeat yourself)...
UI Lockups due to long running tasks Recently coded a CakePHP 3 application that would send about 30-60 emails when a user triggered the 'notify' action. When they did this it took probably 30 - 40 seconds for control to return to user. So I was looking at how to fix...
Note the following perl script #!/usr/bin/env perl -wT print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; # foreach $key (sort keys(%ENV)) { print "$key = $ENV{$key}<p>"; } As you can see the hash bang is #!/usr/bin/env perl this is supposed to be more portable because it...
So I just learn't that there is a command that can create a react environment quickly and easily. And it includes the cool web server that reloads every time you edit your component code and also it has a build command to compile it to production.... A lot easier...
After watching a rather good ReactJS youtube tutorial here ==> https://youtu.be/pTHCwUdGFkc I noticed the guys who did the tutorial were using Atom. So I have just downloaded it and found that it has all the special sauce to do ReactJS, HTML, PHP and a host of...
If you have installed Windows 7 and then you just can't download and install the latest patches try WSUS Offline
https://forum.jquery.com/topic/reload-dom-after-injecting-form-elements#14737000002044320 Just had an issue where I was using JQuery to add form fields to a page and when I would submit the form all the added fields were missing. Some forums suggested that I check the...
I have recently had to install Windows 7 on a computer that was manufactured for secure boot and for Windows 8 and above. I used the the Windows7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool-Installer-en-US.exe from Microsoft to copy the Windows 7 x64 iso to a USB key and tried to boot the...
Was doing some work for an Interior Designer based in Newcastle NSW who is using Squarespace as a hosting platform. Squarespace has partnered with Let's Encrypt to provide SSL https connections for every one of their websites. I also have a friend who runs a Building...