In this simple example I will show you a way to perform a custom sorting in MySQL. In this guide of custom sorting I am going to sort mysql rows based on the alphabetical order of the field values. Most…
What do you hate about CakePHP?
After looking at an interesting Google group topic Poll: what do you hate about CakePHP? i have tried to sum up the facts which people reasoned for hating/disliking CakePHP. Please be noted that all the facts listed here are based…
SVN checkout wordpress plugin files
Today i was looking for an effective word press plugin which should help me to manage and modify the look and feel of tags ‘cloud’ box in my this very page. After a short research i found one ultimate-tag-warrior and…
Useful string manipulation helpers in CakePHP
CakePHP comes with a bunch of useful helpers and components which provide handy tools for processing and manipulating data. These helpers are not only the valuable assets for the a framework user, but can be of great help to someone…
CSS and rounded corner example
This is the very first CSS rounded corner technique i learned and used. If someone interested can use it without any doubt. Although, it may look like having too many ‘div’ layers in it, it is a good one, not…
getid3 component for cakephp
What is getID3? getID3() is an open-source, cross-platform software library for the PHP language written by James Heinrich and Allan Hansen. getID3() can extract information from multimedia file formats: audio, video and images in various formats. Information extracted includes playtime,…
Passed arguments routing and custom ajax pagination url in cakephp
While working in my recent “charity project” i had to list all charities found in a particular region or state. I created a regions_controller and an index function in it to fetch and set records and index.ctp as a view…
An alternate to paginator counter showing page in cakephp
An ordinary yet useful piece of hack to the way the cakephp pagination’s pages “showing page” parameter is displayed. As default, we are used to use $paginator->counter() method which gives us a counter string for the paged result set like…
Delete SVN files in Linux or Windows
Sometimes you checkout a recent API source code via some SVN client to your local system and thereafter want to remove SVN files from the directory structure. Here are the different ways to remove SVN files from your linux or…
Full-text search in MySQL
Normally, most of us use “SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 LIKE ‘%$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…
