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array_merge – And the winning key is!
Just a note to self about PHP array_merge The later array passed into array_merge overwrites the former, also if it's indexed with numerical keys then the values will just be appended. <?php $option_array = [ 'element' => 'ooa1', 'optionb' => 'ob1',...
OpenRPT Context Queries, Format Strings and URLs in PDFs
OpenRPT is a Report Write that is Bundled with xTuple in all it's flavours. It's simple and takes some getting used to in order to use it's power When creating a custom report there is a thing called a Context Query. These are the values that are available...
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...
Making Weird Grunting Noises with CakePHP 3 & Twitter Bootstrap
This is how I got grunt running with the twbs/bootstrap plugin to automatically copy the CSS, JS and Fonts into my CakePHP 3 development environment. I did this on MacBookPro OSX 10.11.5. But this applies to Linux too. If anyone has better suggestions as to how this...
TCPDF KeyWords Doubled in Document Properties Description Tab – Acrobat Reader
This causes the keywords to double when viewed in File ==> Properties ==> Description Tab. $pdf->SetKeywords('CLAM, CLM, Schedule, Program, Meeting, Service Meeting'); This shows the keywords once only: $pdf->SetKeywords('CLAM CLM Schedule Program Meeting...
CakePHP 3 Changes To Date/Time Formatting
The new date objects have different formatting strings http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/classSimpleDateFormat.html#details $this->Time->format($assigned_part->start_time, 'h:mm') $this->Time->format($mtg->date, 'eeee MMMM d') The old ones here...