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Cake DB Update Shell

Utoxin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:07:09 +0000

Time for another useful CakePHP code example. This was created for our hosting system at work, and is used to manage DB updates on installs of the hosted websites. I have removed some code to simplify this example, mainly relating …

CakePHP, Custom Queries, and the Result Array

Utoxin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:12:07 +0000

Just a quick post about a wonderful trick I stumbled across last night while experimenting with Virtual Fields on models in CakePHP. Since I started using Cake, I’ve been annoyed that when I ran a custom query, the results would …

CakePHP + Symlinks = Pain

Utoxin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:07:45 +0000

Now that I’ve had a day or so to recover, I’m going to tell you about what I just spent 2-3 weeks trying to resolve. By way of explanation, our main product at work is a CakePHP based CMS application. …

Simple NaNoWriMo API Class

Utoxin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:18:30 +0000

As anyone who knows me probably realizes (because I talk about it incessantly) it’s NaNoWriMo time again. Which means I’m revamping my wordwar tool for this year. This time, I’m giving it a complete overhaul. In the process, I looked …

More Correct Email from CakePHP

Utoxin — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:22:34 +0000

One problem a lot of people have with sending email from PHP in general is properly setting the envelope sender of the message, so that it’s correct in all the headers. This is important because it affects spam filtering rather …