If you use CakePHP’s caching system but don’t like having to wrap you calls to Model::find() in if statements (“if cache result found… else…”) then this little quick tip is for you. Basically, we’re just going to put a slightly modified version of Model::find() in AppModel. Our new find() method will check for the existence [...]
Nothing like writing a tutorial on your code to realize how you could improve it! Just minutes after writing a tutorial on persisting pagination limits in CakePHP – a system I developed weeks ago, I wondered to myself why I just didn’t make it a component and boost its portability by a billion percent. So, [...]
If you find yourself paginating a lot of results, you may want to give your users the ability to change the number of results per page they see. Easy enough, I know, but the user’s preference should also persist through the session no matter what data the application is serving up. And, ideally, we don’t [...]
You heard me – it sucks! I’m especially looking at you, Flash developers. To be fair, yours isn’t the only one that sucks – all splash pages (enter gross generalization here) suck. The internet is about content, and splash pages, especially those containing the ubiquitous and oh-so-irrelevant ‘Flash introduction’. The more clicking a user has [...]
If I had to choose my top pet peeve relating to the world of website design, it would definitely be that one, annoying, lazy, useless phrase to indicate a link: click here! Click where? Why here? Why not there? Where else am I going to click? What am I clicking on? Where am I going? [...]