milesjohnson

I got pretty bored the other day and also noticed this contest over at NetTuts, and thought to myself, "Why not enter Databasic into the contest?". Well that is my plan, but I also wanted to fix some problems and restraints in the current version. The new version supports AND/OR operators in the conditions, as well the column operators (!=, <=, etc) have been rebuilt. Continue reading...

Say you have a list of messages, and on the left of each message is a checkbox. This checkbox is used for a mass deletion or mass insert function here. Now to make it easier on the user, its nice to add a checkbox outside of the list that either checks them all, or dechecks them all. The following function can achieve that effect, using jQuery of course. Continue reading...

About a week ago I talked about automatically sanitizing your data before its saved. Now I want to talk about automatically stripping HTML from your data before its saved, which is good practice. Personally, I hate saving any type of HTML to a database, thats why I prefer a BB code type system for this website. Continue reading...

I recently needed the ability to display a list of feed items, but the catch was I needed them to be combined from multiple feeds, a feed aggregator. Its really simple, the script is a CakePHP Component that will take a list of feeds and aggregate them into a single array based on their timestamp. It works with RSS 1.0 (RDF), RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 and has the ability to cache its results. Continue reading...

So if you are like me and hate having to sanitize or clean your data manually within each action, and was hoping there was an easier way, there is. Simple combine the magic of the Models beforeSave() and the powerful strength of Sanitize::clean(). Continue reading...