Web Design from a Maine Perspective
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Posted on 01/14/2013 at 02:34 pm | Viewed 16,314 times | 0 comments
A common, recurring headache and complaint among Zend Lucene search processing is handling the data fields in search results. We all like to be flexible and robust in handling the results, we may want our search to return news articles, blogs or webpage content. Invariably, we run into problems, usually in the form of an exception Fatal...
Posted on 12/28/2012 at 12:33 pm | Viewed 21,445 times | 0 comments
We have discovered in a recent implementation of Internationalization that GIT can corrupt the POEdit generated *.po and *.mo files. Upon committing updated files GIT by default will replace the LF with CRLF in these files. These files cannot be tampered with after generation, even viewing the files with most windows based editor may corrupt...
Posted on 10/24/2012 at 10:16 am | Viewed 14,872 times | 0 comments
Every now and then, when I look really close at a design in Photoshop, I see that one of my color gradient layers looks really bad. I didn't know what this was called, until I searched around for how to get smooth gradients in Photoshop. Your Gradient's Worst Enemy: Banding Turns out this lovely effect is called banding . This makes...
Posted on 10/21/2012 at 10:27 am | Viewed 14,100 times | 0 comments
I avoided PNG images for quite a while, mainly because I could accomplish almost every task with transparent GIFs (if not, I could change the design ever so slightly). Fast forward a few years and web designs are far too complex and textured to only use transparent GIFs, plus it's so much cooler to say "ping" than "gif". Another reason I...
Posted on 06/28/2012 at 11:11 am | Viewed 14,913 times | 0 comments
I kept getting the White Screen of Death (WSOD). What we at Saco Design have appropriately named the behavior of the default blackhole Security Component setting. The weird issue was that I was getting the issue only on the live server. I had recently updated the live server's version of PHP to the latest 5.3.x release. However, I...
Posted on 02/24/2012 at 02:07 pm | Viewed 12,819 times | 0 comments
This one caused me more than a little headache, turned out it was easily solvable. renderElement() can be used in a helper function. The following example worked nicely for me. In this case I am calling and element "order_form.ctp" $theView = ClassRegistry::getObject('view'); echo $this->output($theView->renderElement('order_form'));...
Posted on 10/14/2011 at 09:25 am | Viewed 22,723 times | 0 comments
The devil's in the details... I was trying to make a really simple, dreadfully easy, database join in my CakePHP web application. I've forced joins in Cake before, using the 'joins' key in the options array for find calls and paginate calls with no issue. It was late and for the first time I only wanted to use a single join. I copied the...
Posted on 08/11/2011 at 11:16 pm | Viewed 14,920 times | 0 comments
Great find. If you want to insert NOW() into your query using CakePHP's save() or saveAll() functions, you can use the following expression: $this->data['Model']['custom_date_field'] = DboSource::expression('NOW()'); Not sure how it works on MSSQL, but I will be testing that soon. Cheers, -Kevin Wentworth
Posted on 08/07/2011 at 05:03 pm | Viewed 20,123 times | 0 comments
I'm been muddling my way through pagination with multiple joins, and complex filtering. I finally got it all working (more on that later, maybe....) when I noticed that I couldn't paginate my results. Everything was working fine until I added a "group" parameter to the find call. Instead of getting the right count, I got a count of 1! A...
Posted on 04/03/2011 at 12:40 pm | Viewed 20,443 times | 2 comments
I ran into an issue today that I've run into before, except I couldn't remember what I did to fix it (hence this article). I was using CakePHP validation rules to validate a user account details. The CakePHP validation was properly failing (the form data wasn't being saved) and I could tell the validate array was set correctly because the...
