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IT related tech tips since 2006Australian Mobile Validation CakePHP 3.x
This is a very simple mobile validation for Australian Mobiles. It probably would also benefit from having all the symbols except + stripped too // src/Model/Table/Users.php where Users is the class name // of the table field your are validating $australianMobile =...
Car Mounted Traffic Guidance Drone
An idea A car with a small compartment with an automatic door. The compartment contains a charging cradle and a small micro-drone with a hi res camera and a wi-fi connection back to the car The cars on-board computer releases the drone when the car driver, or the cars...
Apache Reverse Proxy with Websocket
This is the working configuration for an SSL Apache 2.4.6 Reverse Proxy back to an Apache-Coyote/1.1 server, including letsencrypt configuration to allow the automated renewal of certificates using a local webroot on the Reverse Proxy Server Apache Reverse Proxy SSL...
Embedding ReactJS in a CakePHP View
When people say they want to use CakePHP with React typically the recommendation is to convert CakePHP into an API server and then add ReactJS as the front-end served on a different URL than CakePHP. But what about when you have a CakePHP application and you...
NextJS + Redux Testing
Been trying to implement some tests for NextJS Redux App. You can get most of the way there by following the very good information here => http://redux.js.org/recipes/writing-tests But if you drop .babelrc into your NextJS project as per above it stops the npm run...
Javascript Tips: Scope your case blocks with curly brackets
Give your react props default values If you pass null as a prop then you get warnings about going from a controlled to uncontrolled component Renaming variables when...
Dealing with Flashes of Unstyled Content in NextJS
So I made a YouTube video of a challenge I had of a FontawesomeIcon React component flashing to massive when loading the page and then back to the right size. This video shows the work-a-rounds. I tried to include the code snippets here but the self hosted wordpress...
Working around SVG Swallowing Click Events
I have used FortAwesome/react-fontawesome to put a trash icon on a nextjs react page. <a data-part_id={id} data-meeting_id={meetingId} onClick={(e) => { e.preventDefault(); console.log(event.target) window.confirm('Do you really want to...
CakePHP 3 returning invalid sort order
CakePHP with a query string /api/parts/getParts?sort=sort_order&direction=asc&limit=100 Returns items out of order. See below for the work-a-round { "parts": [ { "sort_order": 10 }, { "sort_order": 20 }, {...