James McDonald

My DS415+ Synology NAS has just been updated to DSM 6.0 In my Mac Book Pro running OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 the NAS was appearing in Finder but when I clicked on it the finder pane showed "Not Connected" or "Connection Failed" and clicking the connect as... button...

Just installed CakePHP3 under nginx and tried to switch between pages of a paginated view and every time it would return the default 1st page. The url for each page was http://example.com/cake3/posts?page=2 Discovered using debug_kit that the GET request QUERY_STRING...

Note to self: If $this->set('_serialize', [ 'content' ]);  then a request for content type of 'application/json' or 'application/xml' will automagically return the correct data without needing a view file. But if $this->set('_serialize', false); isn't set then a...

Problem: debug set to true in config/app.php, vendor/cakephp/debug_kit exists but debug kit toolbar not appearing in browser, debug_kit/js/toolbar.js shows a 404 when viewing page load in Developer Tools in browser. Cause: symlink from vendor/cakephp/debug_kit/webroot...

Standing on the shoulders of giants. I have converted the code from the below mentioned sites to work with CakePHP 3. Normal database backed Form with AJAX JQuery code Inspired by: http://jamnite.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/cakephp-form-validation-with-ajax-using.html...

I wanted to learn about using AJAX to submit a form by following http://miftyisbored.com/a-complete-tutorial-on-cakephp-and-ajax-forms-using-jquery/ and I couldn't get the examples to work because CakePHP 3 has some significant (and better) changes. Below is my...

By default the Locale for CakePHP 3 is en_US so dates display as m/d/y # config/app.php 'App' => [ 'namespace' => 'App', 'encoding' => env('APP_ENCODING', 'UTF-8'), 'defaultLocale' => env('APP_DEFAULT_LOCALE', 'en_US'), 'base' => false, Which makes...

Sometimes you can't locate the original prpt file that you use to create and upload a report to the Pentaho BI Server. So how do you grab the reports from the BI server and then edit them? Firstly you need to have Pentaho Report Designer Installed. Then you need to...