When a visitor visits a website, browser renders page in form of html to your browser window and you see a well arranged web page as a result. This page may include text blocks, images, videos, slide shows, animations and many more. From programming point of view, every time you visit a web page, the web browser displays the page in form of html which is combination of text blocks, images and videos arranged in a pre-designed or organised manner, using cascading style sheets (css), Javascript (js) files and more. Continue reading →
In CakePHP 2 we had hasMany, saveMany, saveAssociated model methods or functions to save associated data. These functions works great with straight associations but to make them work for saving multi-level association data you need a trick. Continue reading →
Today I tried to update Cakephp by running php composer update on my server. I tried to follow the commands given at https://getcomposer.org/download/ under Command-line installation but it failed at the very first go. The command line code was: Continue reading →
While working in a CakePHP application in my local computer I usually use Gmail SMTP in CakePHP to send emails from my application which are of course test emails. Previously it worked just fine with the basic settings (as specified in first code snippet below) but down the road some times later Continue reading →
I was working on a WordPress website in which I needed to create thumbnails from PDF file uploads. As I work with WordPress less frequently these day I was not aware of an amazing update and fact about PDF thumbnail generation in WordPress. Continue reading →
Sometimes you don’t want a page to be indexed by search engine robots. The reason could be as simple as you dont want people to find a page as it is not important. For example, I have a website portfolio on my website and I display all items on one page. I have put single portfolio item links Continue reading →
In CakePHP 2.x we used Router::url([]) to generate URL in any file. It works almost same with two major differennces though. The first one is that we have to call Router class manually wherever we want to use this function. Continue reading →
I was looking for this for a while and then finally found it here after having some trouble with search. Posting it here hoping for a someone to land up here before they could find the actual page in organic search. ;)
Needless to say foundation people need to do some ground work in order to make documentation more user friendly and easily available. I am really enjoying it with CakePHP 3. :)
I got started with my new CakePHP 3.x project today. As usual I wanted to create a few scaffold using cake bake command. As I already had a CakePHP 2.x setup in my machine. I still needed it and its cake bake commands to run to create any thing while working on the cakephp 2.x project. So is there a way I could use both cake bake consoles for CakePHP 2.x and 3.x respectively, at the same time?
Answer is YES. All we need to do is make some tweaks in order to run them both. Here are what I did.
I actually went back into the CakePHP 2.x installation and renamed the cake and cake.bat to cake2 and cake2.bat respectively. There are located in C:\wamp\www\mycakephp2app\lib\Cake\Console.
This step actually was to set path environmental variable manually for CakePHP 3 as I already had set it up for CakePHP 2.x on my windows machine. I actually need them both. So I would add them like this C:\wamp\www\mycakephp2app\bin;C:\wamp\www\mycakephp2app\lib\Cake\Console;(for cakephp 3 it is set automatically.
If you installed Cakephp 2 after CakePHP was installed you have to set the environmental variable path accordingly)
As you might have noticed that I renamed cake and cake.bat shell scripts to cake2 and cake2.bat respectively I need to run cake2 bake in order to invoke CakePHP baker.
This is an email I wrote to one of my clients to ask him to optimize images before uploading. This client was hosting his website on my hostgator reseller account.
Hello Xyz,
Today I received an Excessive Resources Usage warning from HostGator hence I went into my hosting manager cPanel to investigate whether which site was using what size of space. Although yourwebsite.com may not be the most over-weighted website, during the process I found that yourwebsite.com was using Non-Optimized images which are unnecessarily addting to space usage. It would have been avoided without affecting the quality of images uploaded. Let me show an example.
You have uploaded xyz.png weighing 567KB which is 1200×628 pixels in size/dimension while you merely needed to use in this size on the website. Even if you needed to use this dimension if could be optimized to 42KB while keeping moderate or same quality. I would have resized it to 600×314 pixels if I was showing it in on a web page or even to 500x or less if I wanted to use it just as a featured image. You no way needed to upload it as an PNG image. Always keep image in JPG format unless you want a transparent image (PNG) or an animation (GIF)
The following image Illustrates the difference of quality and weight of same sized images in PNG and JPEG formats respectively. Ironically some themes such as popular Newspaper Theme create 25 different sized versions of one image. Because of this fact this single image of yours has resulted into 5.09MB of size. To prevent this I may have to make a change into the file which generates 25 versions of single image. Ref https://goo.gl/XDGgtW
I am attaching all the versions so you may compare them to see the difference.
How one can optimize images to help with hosting and website?
In addition to deeming it as an effective measure to avoid unnecessary increase of space on a web server, it is always a good practise to optimize images to keep your web page light-weight in size so that it loads faster. Loading of images plays a vital role in the loading speed of a web site so turn/keep/optimize images to be low in size and your website will load many folds faster than ever!
To optimize images please re-upload the images some of which are very large in weight and dimension or size. Here’s how you could do it.
Download the original image using your Media manager(WordPress) or FTP.
Optimize it using software like Adobe Photoshop or online tools like http://optimizilla.com/.
Permanently Delete the old image from Media Manager or through FTP and reupload optimized image with same name.
Make any necessary changes to the post(s) in which you are using this. Generally deleting an image from a monthly archive and re-uploading it won’t need any further changes to be done.
Let me know if you want me to do it for you at my end. Just send me the user/pass to admin end and/or FTP. I may have to charge a very reasonable (data entry) fee for the time spent.
