Color is subjective and people see colors differently sometimes wildly differently. Where someone sees the color red a different person will see orange or yellow. This survey is designed to find a common ground for defining color names. I didn’t some up with this test, it was stolen directly from Randall Patrick Munroe (XKCD) and he [...]
You have no expectation of privacy. We will collect any and all information you or your computer is willing to give us and do whatever we want with that information. Use of this site is entirely optional. Use at your own risk. Today on Slashdot they have an article on privacy policy and it got me thinking [...]
Interesting Friday, I’m going to try to make a new post once a week on Friday of all the interesting things that I have found over the week. People to follow, interesting projects, local events, ect. The Vancouver sun wrote an artical about Every Day Fiction where we talk about our newest upcoming project EveryDayNovels.com to be launched sometime in fall of 2010. [...]
By default whenever you make a change to a MySQL database it creates a log of the query and stores it in a file simlare to ‘mysql-bin.000001′ . The MySQL database does this so that you can recover or replicate a database. Most applications this is a good things to have enabled just like doing regular backups. If you want to disable [...]
I been with a bunch of different hosts over the past few years Hostgator (Good)- Reseller account, only positive things to say about them so far. Good phone/Chat/Email support. Great response time for there servers. ect… Dreamhost (OKish) – 1800+ domains on shard hosting?! decent email support, lots of features, funny newsletter, downtime every month, [...]
Flash fiction is perfect for your coffee break, your commute, or whenever you have a few minutes for yourself. Crafted with gemlike precision, every flash fiction piece tells a complete story, never using more than a thousand words. The Best of Every Day Fiction Two brings together one hundred flash fiction pieces selected from Every Day [...]
I been having reports from my users that they are getting randomly logged out of my web applications. After much debugging I found that CakePHP regenerates the session on every request. File: core.php /** * The level of CakePHP security. The session timeout time defined * in ‘Session.timeout’ is multiplied according to the settings here. * Valid values: [...]
When upgrading an old web application to start using CakePHP but the old systems was riddled with invalid data. When the creating the CRUD system I need a way of updating this invalid data. The following line of code will disable the validation in the controller. $this->Story->validate = array(); // Stop valadation on the story. Source: Cakephp Save [...]
This code snippet will create a search box that uses can use to search for text in the database. The control creates a query to search certain fields of publsihed stories View or layout: <?php echo $form->create(‘Stories’, array(‘url’ => array(‘action’ => ‘index’))); echo $form->input(‘search_text’, array(‘label’ => false)); echo $form->end(‘Search’); ?> Controler: <?php function admin_index( ) [...]
Question: setFlash() no longer showing up on the page. Why ? $this->Session->setFlash(“Hello world”); Answer As of CakePHP version 1.2 you need to tell the template where to put the flash message <?php $session->check(‘Message.flash’)) { $session->flash(); } ?>
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods. function Index() function IndexAuthor() And I want to use the same ‘view’ (or template, Index.ctp) for both of the methods of the control. Answer: You’re looking for Controller::render(). function IndexAuthor() { $this->autoRender = false ; $this->render(‘/stories/admin_index’); } Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1753585/cakephp-same-view-for-multiple-functions
If you run a website that has a contacts form or any other input from users. sooner or later you will start getting attacked by internet robot zombies. What is a “internet robot zombies” you ask? Well lets break it up a little bit. A robot is a program that someone has written, that searches [...]
Have you ever ask yourself what is the current time is it in HongKong, Vancouver? I work with people all over this planet, I’m constantly asking myself what time is its where they are?, can I phone them? ect… So I created this simple PHP script to show the current local time of all the [...]
This code snippet should let you add a new post to your wordpress database 2.5.1 require_once(‘wp-config.php’); // create post object class wm_mypost { var $post_title; var $post_content; var $post_status; /* publish, private */ var $post_author; /* author user id (optional) */ var $post_name; /* slug (optional) */ var $post_type; /* ’page’ or ’post’ (optional, defaults to ’post’) */ var $comment_status; /* open or closed for commenting (optional) */ var $post_category ; } // initialize post object $wm_mypost = new wm_mypost(); $wm_mypost->post_title = "Title2 ". date( ’r' ); $wm_mypost->post_content = "content3"; $wm_mypost->post_status = ’publish’; $wm_mypost->post_author = 1; // Catagorys $post_category = split("," , "one"); foreach($post_category as $key=>$val) { $post_category[$key] = get_cat_ID($val); } $wm_mypost->post_category = $post_category ; // Optional; uncomment as needed // $wm_mypost->post_type = ’page’; // $wm_mypost->comment_status = ’closed’; // feed object to wp_insert_post $post_ID = wp_insert_post($wm_mypost); echo date( ’r' ) . "\n"; echo "post_ID:". $post_ID . "\n";
This tutorial will walk you thou the steps to install PHPBB3 on your system. Intro PHPBB3 has become one of the more popular bulletin board system (AKA, BBS, or forums) available. It is used for all types of websites, from corporate websites, online stores, online hobby groups, ect. One of the main selling points for [...]
A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer [...]
I hate internet explorer, I hate it so much. At lest once a day I curse it to the pits of hell to be torched endlessly by a Richard Simmons kazoo band. My hate for internet explorer mainly comes from my own laziness, I just don’t want to spend the time to create the same [...]
OpenDNS is a custom DNS server that you can use instead of using your IPS’s DNS server. It checks any address that you lookup against its own list of bad sites (phishing scams, and other things) and redirects you accordingly. It also provides a simple way of enabling/disabling blocking of adult websites. It often used [...]
Introduction There has been a lot of talk recently about the micro blogging. Micro blogging is a blogging platform that lets you post very small updates about your life, to help keep you and your friends up to date with each others lives. The services are kept very simple so anyone can use them easily. [...]
If you build it they will come. That’s the mentality that most people have when building there first website. That’s just not the way the internet works. You have to advertise, you have to tell people that you exist. Ask your self how you found the last item you purchased from the internet. Did you [...]