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Netbeans Removes Indent from // Comments

Been using netbeans for PHP development and discovered that it will remove the leading whitespace from comments and then the comments inside a block of code are hard up against the left margin which looks weird. Not sure if there is a setting to stop this behaviour...

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CakePHP POST Failing

I was just trying to submit about 10 x 15 records... and found that cakephp was failing with a validation error. Found out it was due to the following in the php error log. [09-Jun-2016 19:16:22 Australia/Melbourne] PHP Warning:  Unknown: Input variables exceeded...

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Adding new fonts to TCPDF

Less agony way of doing it. Download your fonts and then run the following cd  /Users/jmcd/Sites/clam/vendor/tecnickcom/tcpdf tools/tcpdf_addfont.php -i /Users/jmcd/Downloads/liberation-sans/LiberationSans-BoldItalic.ttf cd fonts/ Bulk Load Multiple TTF's for i in ls...

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CakePHP 3 – TCPDF Install and Usage

In your CakePHP top level folder (the one that has composer.json, src/, vendors/, config/, webroot/) run: composer require tecnickcom/tcpdf You should now have vendor/tecnickcom/tcpdf Now in a controller src/Controller/<ControllerName>Controller.php create an...

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