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Over a year ago I wrote about turning debug off automatically in production. That post I wrote is completely wrong (to an extent). The theory is correct but the execution was incorrect. Even one of the comments pointed out the problem, but I haven't had time to blog about it till now.

About a month ago I realized my implementation was wrong when one of my live sites was outputting MySQL errors and database information (including passwords) to all my users. Since debug in core.php was set to 2, and then disabled to 0 in bootstrap.php, the errors were being triggered before bootstrap was loaded. This was a huge problem as it printed out vital DB information.

It is an easy fix however, simply switch around the values from my previous entry. Debug in core.php should be set to 0 and in bootstrap.php it should be set to 2! That fixes the startup errors that appear before the bootstrap process.

if (env('REMOTE_ADDR') == '127.0.0.1') {
	Configure::write('debug', 2);
}

A small update on my hiatus and my broken hand. Many things to come in the future regarding my blog and scripts! Continue reading...

Time for a short story on my hiatus and current situation. Continue reading...

While working on this app, I thought I would give the not so used method, setAction() a spin. If you are unfamiliar with setAction(), its a method that will internally forward one action to another. This is incredibly useful as it allows you to switch actions without having to do another HTTP request, nor having to reload all the controller and related objects; could be a huge saver on overhead. Continue reading...

I have been working on the new 1.8 version of the forum for almost 2 months, simply because version 1.7 was completely broken. It used PHP 5.3 constants which didn't work on 99% of the users machines. This problem has now been corrected in the new 1.8 version, but that's not all that changed. All topics, forums and forum categories now use the sluggable behavior for pretty URLs. Furthermore, the Installer has been rewritten completely for faster and easier usage. The main purpose of this post is to direct you in the 1.8 upgrade process as there are many things you need to do. Continue reading...