Install Laravel on Windows – 3 minutes install Install laravel via composer installer on windows xampp or wamp Laravel 5 can be installed via composer on all operating systems like Windows, ubuntu, mac. Using the following quick guide one can…
Contain and selected fields of model with User _attachAttributes
I am in a Task model. I build following options to load the Task and associated User model data.
CakePHP deleteButton when SoftDelete Behavior in Effect
Here is a piece of code placed as a helper function. Useful to create a delete button/link while having SoftDeleteBehavior enabled for a Model. For example, placed in data management page (view page such as admin_index.ctp or index.ctp) of your…
Bootstrap 3 List group horizontal
This page http://goo.gl/262QmJ has a css to make a list-group floating horizontally and sticking together like it does for list-group to render vertically by default. In order to float list-group-items float horizontally one may add a “list-inline” style to UL…
Fully-formatted Time Difference between two Dates
An useful php function to calculate a time difference between two dates given in sql format. If the newer date is not passed as second argument it would calculate the different between the old date and current time. So it…
Form Helper: custom decimal field format in number field
I have a database table field defined as decimal(10,5). I want to use it for various purposes so I don’t want to change the datatype. In most of the forms however I want to keep this field showing none or very…
ACL: Checking Permissions in Views, Fixed
Following the post (http://goo.gl/PLeNJR) for ACL: Checking Permissions in Views like some others I faced a “undefined index User…” and some other PHP warnings when trying to implement this example. After doing some testing following the working code I came…
Create php array from select options
There are many ways to create a dropdown select options list from a given array in any programming language like PHP. Please check how to create a select list from a PHP array. However in this case I will make…
Remember Password, Git bash under Windows
Following an answer (http://goo.gl/EcqpTZ) here’s what I did to setup the Git Bash environment to log me in once when I start it up. This method worked for me to make “remember me” working or to save my password for…
Containable with mixed arguments, the CakePHP Beauty!
Here’s an example of CakePHP Containable behaviour. Although, it was not a very complex find call but the beauty of the containable is this that you can fetch records using “tricky ways” which normally may not be possible with straight…
