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Blog entries for February 2010

Feb
17

Setting up cron jobs with Cake shells

Topics: Tutorials, CakePHP // 8 comments, 1,368 views
This post will primarily be about the process I had to go through to get cron jobs and shells working on Dreamhost. The main problem I kept running into was that the shells would simply not work at all through a cron job; yet they worked when I manually did it through SSH. The weird thing was the source of the console/cake file was being printed in my logs, instead of executed. Continue reading...
Feb
5

Converting a SimpleXML object to an array

Topics: Programming, PHP & MySQL // 7 comments, 1,291 views
If you have been following my Twitter, you would of heard me complaining about converting a SimpleXML object into an array. I am still having that problem, so if you can get it working correctly (my test so far below), I would be greatly appreciative. If you have never used the SimpleXML object, it can be quite awesome when actually reading an XML document - but once it comes to converting it to something else, it comes straight from the darkest depths of hell. Continue reading...
Feb
2

The fate of class suffixes in 5.3

Topics: Programming // 3 comments, 618 views
Before PHP 5.3 was released, many programmers would suffix their classnames with the package and or module that it pertains to. For example, SessionHelper, UsersController, CommentModel, so on and so forth. But with the recent upgrade to namespaces, are these types of suffixes still required? Continue reading...