Re: How to use PHP to delete cookies when browser is close.

2009-09-09 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
PHP is primarily a web centric language. Once the browser is closed, there really isn't a way to clear the cookies of a visitor, as there is no further way to interact with the web site, and thus the server that runs the PHP code. If you are thinking more along clearing your OWN cookies after yo

Re: Problem serving video to Mac/Safari/Quicktime

2009-09-03 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
When I have seen others with similar session expiry issues when serving media files, they've solved the problem with setting security to low. Although it's not necessarily a proper solution, perhaps it might lead to a better solution. Have you been able to track down the reason why there are mul

Re: Welcome Page not finding CSS/Images

2009-09-03 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
My 2nd paragraph (after I re-read it) seemed a bit terse. :) On Sep 3, 10:32 am, brian wrote: > (why do you feel like a jerk?) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group,

Re: Welcome Page not finding CSS/Images

2009-09-03 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Hmm, well now I feel like a jerk. Aanyways, for a helpful CakePHP CLI tool to run through all of your files for whitespace issues, you might want to take a look at this little snippet (gem) of code that David Persson has shared with us all. It iterates over the entire cake app directory stru

Re: Anyone used ezComponents successfully as a Vendor class with CakePHP?

2009-09-02 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
ing board (when I get time to work on it!)! Thanks again. ;) On Sep 2, 11:41 am, "Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)" wrote: > Thanks, Rick.  I was trying to determine if there was an easier way to > add it, but after talking with some of the developers in their IRC > chat, I couldn'

Re: Welcome Page not finding CSS/Images

2009-09-02 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
When images and/or CSS do not show, it's almost always typically an issue with mod_rewrite not being enabled either on your server, your account, or your particular directory that holds the CakePHP app. If you're unable to understand how to get it working, that's what your shared hosting support

Re: Anyone used ezComponents successfully as a Vendor class with CakePHP?

2009-09-02 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Thanks, Rick. I was trying to determine if there was an easier way to add it, but after talking with some of the developers in their IRC chat, I couldn't think of any as the call to the autoload is required. I was trying to think of a way to package it all up, such as in a plugin or something si

Re: Set the timestamp to current server time manually...

2009-09-02 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
I use the following code: $this->User->saveField('lastlogin', date('Y-m-d H:i:s')); "lastlogin" is a field in my users table, so adjust your name/table accordingly. Also, if your server is not in the same timezone as you are, but you'd like it to be, you'll probably want to add the following sni

Re: Why do users keep redirecting to the home page on login?

2009-08-25 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Just as a test, can you set $this->Auth->allow('*') instead of 'display' and see what happens? On Aug 25, 8:14 am, DavidH wrote: > Hi All > > I'm still trying to put together a login system of admin and normal > users. It's pretty much working OK; but for some reason I can't fathom > when a user

Re: logged in users list

2009-08-25 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
owsers > at once to open yours site again - now alone. Etc, etc. > > On Aug 24, 8:56 pm, "Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)" > > > > wrote: > > Would a JavaScript/AJAX onunload event (or similar for navigation away > > from current domain) called to a user/logout a

Re: Certain strings crashing CakePHP - where do I look first?

2009-08-24 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
ake, and > establish that the server was a feasible culprit. > > Thanks *hugely*, > Chris > > > > Brendon Kozlowski (Realm) wrote: > > I've been thinking about this over the weekend, and...to be honest, if > > it's a server issue (you're testing with

Re: Timing an AJAX effect

2009-08-24 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
It is an ironic time when developers ask for a way to SLOW the response time. If the user interaction interface you have chosen is not the most appropriate, perhaps a different route would be more desirable, such as flashing the background color once the action completes, or flashing a "completed

Re: logged in users list

2009-08-24 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Would a JavaScript/AJAX onunload event (or similar for navigation away from current domain) called to a user/logout achieve the same result? On Aug 24, 7:29 am, Junaed Halim wrote: > Thank you all for your advices. I am gonna apply them in my project. > > > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Dr.

Re: Certain strings crashing CakePHP - where do I look first?

2009-08-24 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
access to PHP settings - just > CPanel on a shared hosting platform. > > Am I right in suspecting Apache or PHP? If so any ideas where I can > look? I can't find anything likely by googling filters for either. > Does Cake automatically use certain PHP filters on all POST an

Re: Auto-model association doesn't work

2009-08-20 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Have you tried clearing your app/tmp/cache folders to remove that as being the cause of the issue? On Aug 20, 4:19 am, "buzachis.a...@gmail.com" wrote: > Hey everyone. > > I have 2 models: User (hasOne) Character (belongsTo) User. > > Everything works great on my laptop. When I move it to a serv

Re: Auth not redirecting for scaffold admin pages

2009-08-20 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
If you were to search these google groups prior to posting, you *probably* would have found the answer. Scaffolding is typically a means for quick non-production deployment so that there is something to show your boss/stakeholders with regard to skeleton-level interaction and navigation. Once a

Re: Tutorials on implementing server side validation in cakephp using jquery

2009-08-20 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
See your other question: http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/6decf0c24f7a6805?hl=en Please don't ask the same question multiple times. On Aug 20, 12:20 am, jeremy wrote: > hai guys, > >              i am looking for tutorials on using cakephp with jquery > to implement

Re: using jquery with cakephp

2009-08-20 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Here is an example - http://www.ajaxlines.com/ajax/stuff/article/cakephp_form_validation_with_ajax_using_jquery.php Note: I have not personally tested this code, it is only something to hopefully get you started in the right direction. On Aug 20, 12:23 am, jeremy wrote: > am able to do the cli

Re: Problems with print_r

2009-08-19 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
If for some reason the $this variable isn't populated or doesn't exist (which as Martin said, you are in trouble if this is the case), print_r won't do anything. Try setting debug to 1 (or 2)...does the app show anything without print_r($this)? On Aug 19, 12:38 pm, Martin Westin wrote: > That s

Re: auto guest login .. Auth

2009-08-19 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
You wouldn't set an auto-login, you simply would not deny access to whatever action(s) you wish them to have access to. On Aug 19, 12:48 am, "Marojahan M.T. Sigiro" wrote: > with Auth.. what should i do to create auto login mechanism for certain user > (e.g. guest) > > anybody has an idea? since

Re: need a planner - calendar to integrate, please suggest

2009-08-18 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Why not simply use Google Calendar in your site itself? http://simplepie.org/wiki/plugins/start http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/icalendar-event-generator * http://britg.com/2008/07/07/using-the-zend-framework-in-cakephp/ <--- probably the most useful http://www.hotscripts.com/listing/inte

Re: Certain strings crashing CakePHP - where do I look first?

2009-08-18 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
I like archF6's suggestion, it's easy to test, and if it doesn't solve it, continue from there. It might work, it might not. I don't think a 500 server error would automatically redirect (but instead stop execution). Regardless, it's about a 20 second test. With Dreamhost I can enable/disable

Re: Access non CakePHP session from within CakePHP

2009-08-17 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
The Session Helper and Component are wrapper classes that allow you to access values stored in PHP's $_SESSION superglobal. You can access anything in it from the Helper and Component just as easily as the superglobal as well. On Aug 16, 6:26 am, Fabs wrote: > Ahh, I see cakePHP doesn't seem to

Re: Certain strings crashing CakePHP - where do I look first?

2009-08-17 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
If AD7six says not to upgrade a Cake 1.1 app to Cake 1.2, then I apologize. I didn't think there'd be that many upgrade changes from 1.1 to 1.2 (my memory must be getting bad - oops). Anyway, as far as baking from a different table, I did not mean to create an entirely different app. You can si

Re: admin routing

2009-08-16 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Just in case there's some confusion in what you're asking, I'll just link you to a bakery article that describes how to create admin-style routing, as well as a link to the Cookbook on prefix routing (and how to set it up in your controllers) by ADmad in the comments http://bakery.cakephp.org/arti

Re: cakephp css not working

2009-08-14 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
The most common cause is that mod_rewrite is not enabled. Make sure mod_rewrite is enabled, restart the server, and try again. On Aug 14, 1:59 am, srini vasan wrote: > hi, >     i have downloaded cakephp stable version. >    I have just typedhttp://localhost/cakephpin my browser. >   but css fi

Re: Using Notepad++ to edit .ctp files

2009-08-14 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
This inspired me to fix my Crimson Editor's syntax highlighting. To get Crimson Editor to use the proper PHP syntax highlighting for CTP (or THTML files for those lagging behind), go to your Program Files \Crimson Editor folder. Open up the "link" folder. Copy/paste the extension.php file, rena

Re: Certain strings crashing CakePHP - where do I look first?

2009-08-14 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Wow wow wow. This question has quickly become about 8 separate questions, none of which still seem to directly pertain to the original. ;) Your NOTICE, WARNING, and DEPRECATED error messages are PHP-related, due to the settings in php.ini. I thought CakePHP usually overrides that setting, but

Re: Validating user password after Auth

2009-08-14 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
teknoid posted an article about his method of doing it. Either way should work just fine; Martin's might be a little easier to manage. http://teknoid.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/demystifying-auth-features-in-cakephp-12/ On Aug 14, 2:50 am, Martin Westin wrote: > When do you do this validation? > S

Re: Certain strings crashing CakePHP - where do I look first?

2009-08-12 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
My first thought, is "would it be possible to upgrade to CakePHP v1.2.4 to possibly remove any lingering effects of an older code base?" My second thought is, "If upgrading is out of the question, did you try 'baking' a very simple MVC based on a test table in your DB that you can attempt to dupl

Re: How to add a style to individual select options?

2009-08-12 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
That actually has recently been added (clarified) to the cookbook documentation. http://book.cakephp.org/revisions/view/9876/Automagic-Form-Elements "Besides the specific input options found below you can specify any html attribute (for instance onfocus). For more information on $options and $htm

Re: Email Validation in cakephp

2009-08-10 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
There are two suggestions: Write a patch and test case to prove there's a limitation with the validation, and give back to the CakePHP project with your own code, or... Write a custom validation (http://book.cakephp.org/view/150/Custom- Validation-Rules) to handle your email fields the way you'd

Re: Official forum for CakePHP

2009-07-15 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
@GravyFace: It only matters in that it was not what the original question had specifically asked for. Since they mentioned "official" (specifically), I'd imagine they were probably searching for a CakePHP forum from the official CakePHP website and was unable to find one - because there is none.

Re: Official forum for CakePHP

2009-07-10 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Although the Google Group's archival and search functionality cannot be rivaled, and categories may not be necessary, they are still very helpful from a user interface/experience perspective. Simple users don't use a search feature in forums either, but can more easily (imho) browse current topic

Re: How to prevent circular relationships ?

2009-07-09 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
I believe gwoo has created a Workbench -> Cake model script somewhere...IIRC the code for it is in the CakeBin. http://bin.cakephp.org/saved/45105 Found from: http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/a94d882f105753dc?hide_quotes=no On Jul 8, 8:57 pm, Mike Bates wrote: > I us

Re: Model Behavior function replaces passed data with model object

2009-07-09 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
I've actually completed most of the work in an Mcrypt Behavior. I need to finish up a few things and get automatic decryption working for related models. You're more than welcome to see my code if you'd like (I intend to share it on the Bakery when I'm sure it's as close to done as I can get it)

Re: tags.ini.php

2009-07-09 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
By "Cake Blog Tutorial", do you mean the one from the book? http://book.cakephp.org/view/219/Blog ?? On Jul 8, 5:02 am, "Krishnan. N" wrote: > Hi, > >     Thanks! that worked just fine -- this is the 'cake blog tutorial' > from cake PHP itself. > >     Is the tags.ini.php also gone? Didn't see

Re: Modify bakes rendered code

2009-07-06 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
http://book.cakephp.org/view/789/Modify-default-HTML-produced-by-baked-templates :) On Jul 6, 1:44 pm, MikeBates wrote: > Does anyone know what I need to edit in the console code to modify the > default code that bake renders? As good as bake is I still find that I need > to spend a lot of time g

Re: Count RS for element

2009-07-03 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
You'd probably want to take a look at CounterCache in the book; this would require a modification (an additional field) to your maincategories table, and a little bit of code, but would ultimately be quicker than a separate query. Another suggestion would be to look at find('count') if you don't

Re: I don't understand this at all

2009-06-25 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Think Google Maps. When you double click on an area in the map to zoom, it needs to know the coordinates on where to zoom. Before all this AJAX goodness, Mapquest did something similar, but required you to reload the entire page - it used this technique. On Jun 25, 6:42 pm, Kyle Decot wrote: >

Re: cakeapp.com

2009-06-25 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
Might want to take a look at http://heroku.com/ to see how they marketed and built their comparable product. On Jun 25, 10:23 am, powtac wrote: > Removed test.php and rerouted /pages/home. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Allowing RSS Feed without the restirctions of Authentication?

2009-06-25 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
if($this->RequestHandler->isRss()){ $this->Auth->allow('index'); }else{ $this->Auth->allow( array( 'home', 'logout', 'contact', 'register', 'confirm', 'forgot_password' )); } On Jun 24, 2:38 pm, tcornett wrote: > I currently have my beforeFilter() function in my AppController set

Re: How to calculate the difference of date between 2 different rows?

2009-06-19 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
These links should contain all the reading material needed to solve your problem: http://book.cakephp.org/view/73/Retrieving-Your-Data http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html (assuming you're using MySQL) http://teknoid.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/dealing-with-calculated-f

Re: Date based on user's country

2009-06-18 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
That would depend on how you stored your users' country info. There are plenty of sites out there that give data on which timezone a country is in, there may even be some APIs. Using that data, you can compare the users' country info to determine the proper datetime of the user, and then either

Re: Advanced(?) Behavior question

2009-06-17 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
en at least > > one Behavior that got around that by running through its Model's > > associations and, for those that implemented the same Behavior, did > > its thing (whatever it was). > > > I've no idea how much of a performance hit that would incur, though. >

Re: Advanced(?) Behavior question

2009-06-17 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
7;s > associations and, for those that implemented the same Behavior, did > its thing (whatever it was). > > I've no idea how much of a performance hit that would incur, though. > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Brendon Kozlowski > > (Realm) wrote: > > > Th

Re: Advanced(?) Behavior question

2009-06-16 Thread Brendon Kozlowski (Realm)
That's what I was hoping too. Unfortunately that didn't seem to be the case. I did a users/posts/comments example site to test functionality. User's email address was encrypted in the DB, and when viewing the index page, it was decrypted (working for user model). Post's title was encrypted (just