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Ajax name check

Submitted by Derick Ng on 8 August 2010 - 5:00pm

When a user signs up to your website, trying to find a username that is not already in use can be a real pain and could cause them not to sign up if they are repeatedly presented with an error. To solve this you can use a simple bit of JavaScript to check if their chosen username [...]

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A word of warning to users of 1and1 and cakePHP

Submitted by Derick Ng on 31 May 2010 - 3:00am

Something I found out recently when I updated the cakePHP core files, when accessing my 1and1 hosting using ssh I kept getting errors when using the cakePHP console. The problem was caused by the fact that by default 1and1 uses PHP 4 for the command line. This cannot be altered using .htaccess, however after a [...]

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Dynamic Select Box

Submitted by Derick Ng on 21 May 2010 - 5:40am

Recently I came across a problem, where I wanted to show a select box for zones in an address (counties or states etc.). I have a list of zones in my database and to put them all in one box would have been unusable as the list is in excess of 2000 zones. My solution [...]

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Bulk record update in Cakephp

Submitted by Derick Ng on 22 August 2009 - 5:02am

I’m sure there are many ways of doing this, but recently I finally got round to figuring out how to update multiple records at a time.  When I started out all I wanted was to give all the selected records the same value for one database field, so the first thing we need to know [...]

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Making flash messages disapear, with YUI.

Submitted by Derick Ng on 25 October 2008 - 7:32pm

Ok, so we all know how useful those flash messages are that cakePHP throw at us, “you’ve done it wrong, try again”. Well as much as I like them I don’t want to be reminded of my error untill I go to a different page. The answer is to make them disapear. Using the YUI [...]

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Paginating Data with CakePHP and Yahoo! User Interface DataTable

Submitted by Derick Ng on 24 October 2008 - 5:37am

The aim of this tutorial is to be able to pull data from your database and output it in a nice shiny data table. Although the cakePHP paginator does this perfectly well, I have been using YUI and I am not a fan of the prototype library. The YUI Paginator control is able to send [...]

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Baking websites with out a development team.

Submitted by Derick Ng on 16 August 2008 - 4:20am

I have been dipping in and out of using a great open source Rapid Development PHP Framework called cakePHP for the past two years. Developing with this framework has meant I have been able to create functionality in websites a lot quicker and easier than I could ever have done without it. This was by [...]

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