Sometimes you checkout a recent API source code via some SVN client to your local system and thereafter want to remove SVN files from the directory structure. Here are the different ways to remove SVN files from your linux or windows directories: Continue reading
Normally, most of us use “SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 LIKE ‘%$keyword%'” OR field2 LIKE ‘%$keyword%‘ ..etc” to search our table and get results. This is slow and inefficient approach, as it does return all (too many) rows in which it does find a match for “keyword” without caring for “relevancy” and time. Continue reading
CakePHP comes with a bunch of useful helpers and components which provide user handy tools to process and manipulate data. These helpers are not only the valuable assets for the framework user, but can be of great help to someone writing a core php application and not using the CakePHP framework. Continue reading
By using fgetcsv function we can have well formatted output for csv data without any pain. If you don’t want to use fgetcsv function for some reason and your CSV comma separated entries may contain comma inside except the delimiters, here is a quick alternate. Continue reading
While working on a report generation system i had to perform a query to check whether records exist in ‘reports’ table between a date range received from two form fields “start_date” and “end_date”. To make it more specific i will try to explain it with the help of an example. Continue reading
On a page that is generated by Joomla, by default you will always see a meta tag like following
<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management" />
After installing Joomla! 1.5, i encountered the following warning message saying “Direct Access to this location is not allowed” when changing the template to which i just downloaded from www.siteground.com. I compared the template files with default templates bundled with 1.5 package and found that configuration files params.ini was missing in my downloaded one. Continue reading
Steps to Install IE7 and Keep IE6 as well
Happy IE browsing!
Error handling in CakePHP is pretty simple and straight forward. While developing in CakePHP with debug value set to > 0 (Configure::write(‘debug’, 1); in app/config/core.php) you might have encountered error messages something similar to this: Continue reading
As default we have single var $validate rule set in the model class which is triggered on each save() method call while saving form data. This is quite logical and sufficient for single form fields to validate but what if we have another form with somewhat different fields which we want to post and validate? As an answer i know of three different approaches. Continue reading
