Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
jqGrid is an excellent data grid plugin for jQuery which I wanted to use in my TV Schedule application. It went very smoothly except for the order in which the columns are displayed. jqGrid will display the columns in the order that it receives them. This means that you would ...
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
A new requirement came down for the Solo Tech application the other day. We need to serve it using SSL and in addition the SOAP calls to the API need to use SSL as well. There was a lot of hoop jumping in order to get this working. I had ...
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
As part of building up my dev environment at ETI I had to install Apache2.2 and PHP5 on Red Hat 5. Here are my install notes.
Do this as root.
First download the source for Apache and PHP. This command will get the file from the URL and put it at your ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
I needed a class loader for my little framework as I dont want to include all the files in on every request which is what listing them in a long list of includes will do. So I checked out the PHP.net site which has this code sample. I used it ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
I wanted to start a small MVC framework to help build my next project. I needed to get mod_rewrite working and also build a simple class loader.
For mod_rewrite I setup the following .htaccess file (xp.htaccess to get around Windows' filename issue)
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(php|css|js|gif|png|jpe?g)$
RewriteRule (.*)$ /index.php [L]
Then in my dispatcher ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Anthony suggested that I try out the Zend Framework. It's a pretty simple installation but I had a hard time findinga decent tutorial. The simple starter on the Zend site is set up to use SQL Lite and I just did not feel like installing and learning that at the ...
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
For the recipe manager project I need to allow the entering of ingredients that the system does not know about. I decided to use an auto complete field to allow users to easily see what was already in the system. If the ingredient does not exist then the one they ...
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Due to the fact that I could not find a reasonable solution within the CakePHP framework to add a new row of ingredient list inputs to recipe form I solved the problem using jQuery.
This is the script.
$('#add_ingredient_row').click(function()
{
// Clone the last row of the table.
var clonedRow = $("#ingredient_list tr:last").clone();
// Generate an ...
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Today I was going crazy trying to figure out a foreign key issue. So I found this great tool that reverse engineers a graphic model from sql statements. Very cool! It even outputs the model as an image.
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Today I got the basic user authentication going for the Recipe Manager using this tutorial.
Users Controller
class UsersController extends AppController
{
var $name = "Users";
//var $helpers = array('Html', 'Form');
function index()
{
}
function beforeFilter()
{
$this->__validateLoginStatus();
}
function login()
{
if(empty($this->data) == false)
{
if(($user = $this->User->validateLogin($this->data['User'])) == true)
{
$this->Session->write('User', $user);
$this->Session->setFlash('You\'ve successfully logged in.');
$this->redirect('/recipes/');
exit();
}
else
{
$this->Session->setFlash('Sorry, the information you\'ve entered is incorrect.');
exit();
}
}
}
function register()
{
if (!empty($this->data))
{
//Sanitize::clean($this->data);
$this->data['User']['password'] = md5($this->data['User']['password']);
$this->User->create(); // ...
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