DuncanBrown

Ajax name check

Duncan — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:00:29 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

A word of warning to users of 1and1 and cakePHP

Duncan — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:00:29 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Dynamic Select Box

Duncan — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:40:22 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Bulk record update in Cakephp

Duncan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:02:27 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Paginating Data with CakePHP and Yahoo! User Interface DataTable

Making flash messages disapear, with YUI.

Duncan — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:32:28 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Paginating Data with CakePHP and Yahoo! User Interface DataTable

Duncan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:37:27 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Baking websites with out a development team.

Duncan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:20:35 +0000

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 [...] No related posts.

To blog or not to blog…..

Duncan — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:24:09 +0000

….that is the question. I have been considering writing a blog for some time now, but haven’t really had the enthusiasm to go through with it. Now I feel is the right time as I now feel confident enough to sell my wares as a web developer. Hopefully this blog will provide some incite into [...] Related posts:

Baking websites with out a development team.