milesjohnson

So its my 21st birthday today, time flies by fast. I remember being only 16 and learning PHP, and now its 5 years later and I am pretty proud of where I am. But anyways, I will be celebrating at Dave & Busters, playing some video games and having a beer. Just want to say hi to everyone out there reading this, and a premeditated thank you to everyone wishing me a happy birthday! Continue reading...

I recently convinced my friend to start learning CakePHP and to install XAMPP for windows. Everything was going smoothly up until he needed to have the database engine InnoDB enabled. Here's a very quick tutorial on how to enable InnoDB on Windows XAMPP (might also work with other local servers). Continue reading...

Commentia v1.2 is now official released. This version comes with a settings system, in which you define in the model instead of editing the file manually. Continue reading...

I have just released a new version of my MySQL database class, Databasic. This new version fixes a few issues with binds, MySQL functions and little bugs here and there. I have also added an "takes x seconds to execute the query" to every query in debug mode, no idea why I didn't add it before! Continue reading...

It is now time for my second post, in my series of "Basic/Common PHP functions that all programmers should know". The first series was about basic PHP strings and with this issue I am going to tackle 5 more functions for date and time. As always, I try to make my functions short but powerful, enjoy! Continue reading...

So it has taken me nearly a year to get to this point. Over the past year I have been building some very advanced php classes and scripts that I wish to release as open-source. The types of scripts range from database handlers, template engines, form validation and cleaning, session management, CakePHP components and behaviors, so on and so forth. For the time being I'm releasing 3 scripts that I deemed "stable" and "complete". I hope you love them and get as much use out of them as I have. Continue reading...

Recently I was working on a project, where a certain controller had over 15ish+ different models. The problem is that each action needed a different model, and I didn't want to load all those models at once. Here's how to load models, specific to certain actions. Continue reading...