CakePHP Developer Opening in Cape Town, South Africa

2014-04-21 Thread DerekGardiner
We're looking to hire a CakePHP developer in Cape Town, South Africa. We're focused mainly in the Financial services industry at this point. The job specification is available here: http://comotion.co.za/Jobs/Comotion%20Developer%20Job%20Specification.pdf *I looked to see if the community

Re: Our CakePHP app

2014-01-14 Thread DerekGardiner
Really cool app. I like the idea! Would be interested to hear things like: - How long did it take you to dev - Where are you hosting the app - Other challenges you faced when building it As far as the functionality goes I was a little confused by the thumbs up and down on the cons.

Excel Upload Plugin/Component for Cake 2.*

2012-09-01 Thread DerekGardiner
Can anyone suggest the most used/best excel upload helper/component/plugin? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups CakePHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Using mPDF

2012-08-10 Thread DerekGardiner
I have mPDF working within an existing view. Now i need to figure out how to create a PDF of a another view. For example, I would like to set up a cron job which calls a function which creates and emails a number of PDFs every night but I don't know how to actually call that controller and

Re: CakePdf - How To Start?

2012-08-09 Thread DerekGardiner
I seem to be following in elogic's foot steps and battling with the same issues. Does anyone know of a better tutorial to use than the readme file on GITHUB? Desperately trying to get this plugin to produce a PDF. On Friday, 3 August 2012 07:03:11 UTC+2, elogic wrote: I have just downloaded

FPDF or any other PDF export option for a cakePHP environment

2012-06-20 Thread DerekGardiner
I am trying to export a PDF from within a cakephp system. From my searches it seems that FPDF if the best option to export a PDF from an PHP environment. The only cakePHP tutorial i can find about it is a 2007 tutorial:

Calling a plugins controller from within the main applications controller

2012-05-13 Thread DerekGardiner
I am trying to construct an application from various plugins. I would like to call a particular function that resides within a plugin from a main application controller. My plugin controller looks like this: ?php class PluginexampleAppController extends AppController { public function

Android Tab IDE for CakePHP

2012-04-18 Thread DerekGardiner
I'm looking for an android IDE tab application that will allow me to achieve the following: 1. Edit cakephp files via my tab 2. Deploy them to some online server to test the changes I've just made Has anyone managed to achieve something like this efficiently? The other alternative is to make

Cost of cakePHP2 developers

2012-03-28 Thread DerekGardiner
Does anyone know what the typical hourly rate of a cakephp dev (in USD) would be? For a junior, intermediate and senior developer? -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others

cakePHP 1.3 and 2.* Certifications

2011-10-23 Thread DerekGardiner
I saw a while ago the cake certification which was offered through the uploading of a completed cakePHP project was removed. Is there anyword on a new cakePHP developer certification standard? -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new

Re: CakePHP 2.0 Released

2011-10-16 Thread DerekGardiner
How long with cake 1.3* be supported? We've just spent a significant amount of time writing an application in 1.3* and would be gutted to find out if we have to port to 2.0 already. On Oct 16, 11:40 pm, O.J. Tibi ojt...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah! Rave party everywhere for CakePHP 2.0! Wuzah! --

Re: transaction management

2011-05-29 Thread DerekGardiner
Does cakePHP have a default transaction management? On May 27, 8:24 am, Derek Jonathan Gardiner derek.gardi...@gmail.com wrote: How does cake handle transaction management? If the DB connection where to be lost, for example, in the middle of  save or if two sources try to make amendments to

Re: CakeFest 2011 - The CakePHP Conference

2011-05-17 Thread DerekGardiner
Will there by some kind of streaming media or streaming tweets from the conference for those of us who can't physically make it there? On May 16, 3:44 am, Graham Weldon predomin...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I'm thrilled to announce that CakeFest 2011 will be held on September 1st through 4th

Re: TDD in CakePHP

2011-05-10 Thread DerekGardiner
very convenient methods for generating controller Mocks and a very much improved testAction() method to tes a complete dispatch cycle. On May 8, 1:52 pm, DerekGardiner derek.gardi...@gmail.com wrote: Are there going to be changes to the way cake tests their controllers in cake 2.0

Re: TDD in CakePHP

2011-05-08 Thread DerekGardiner
Are there going to be changes to the way cake tests their controllers in cake 2.0? Will they solve the navigation issue where you can't test a controller that redirects? On May 6, 10:02 am, Daniel S. Reichenbach dan...@kogitoapp.com wrote: Greetings, Does anyone do TDD in Cake? Do you have

Re: You favorite IDE/ Dev Setup?

2011-04-03 Thread DerekGardiner
I use Netbeans, it's great for the normal PHP stuff but I haven't found a nice cakePHP plugin. Do you know of one? On Mar 31, 6:49 pm, Chris theswimmingf...@gmail.com wrote: How often do you use NetBeans over geany? I haven't really figured out how I want to use Netbeans On Mar 31, 7:10 am,

$this-Auth-userScope

2011-03-08 Thread DerekGardiner
In an effort to make sure that only active users can log into the application I've added the following in my app_controller function beforeFilter() { $this-Auth-userScope = array('User.active' = 1); } and the following in my login function under my users_controller function login()

Mocking the controller validation on testcases

2011-03-06 Thread derekgardiner
I have a controller function that i'm trying to test but can't because of the authorization component. If have read both http:cakephp.1045679.n5.nabble.com/testing-a-controller-s-add-action-td1311830.html and http:www.mark-story.com/posts/view/testing-cakephp-controllers-the-hard-way but when i