by James McDonald | Jul 9, 2020 | IT Tips
I want to change the name of a column in my database and to do that I have to create a migration and drop a table The query I want to run is UPDATE pallets SET production_date = print_date; Seem so simple in SQL but to do it in CakePHP 4 took some finding Copy data...
by James McDonald | Jul 9, 2020 | IT Tips
Just using Scribus to design and print some lapel cards Regarding Scribus – It seems that the stable version will not run or install easily on Fedora 32 so I have had to make do with the Scribus Version 1.5.6.svn Beta. So after getting around the flakey behavior...
by James McDonald | Jun 28, 2020 | IT Tips
So recently my code editor has been putting a line through File because it is going to removed in CakePHP 5 So here is an example of code that uses the deprecated methods and the suggested SplFileObject Using File public function createTempFile($print_content,...
by James McDonald | Jun 27, 2020 | IT Tips
Using the VS Code Intelephense Extension You get a squiggly line under a function you know exists When you hover over it the popup says “Undefined function … ” Go to Preferences and Settings [ Ctrl + , ], search for stubs and scroll to the bottom of...
by James McDonald | Jun 24, 2020 | IT Tips
Just had a situation where I couldn’t get a redirect to work. My CakePHP app is in an Apache enabled docker container behind an nginx reverse proxy $this->redirect($this->request->referer()); The above simply refused to work in my development environment it...
by James McDonald | Jun 24, 2020 | IT Tips
The process is similar to my previous post on proxying a sub directory back to the root. For example https://example.com/test => proxies back to / in the docker container upstream cups-endpoint { # in my case I’m using cups inside # a docker container and...
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