milesjohnson

Before I start, id like to say hats off to the jQuery team, as 1.4 is looking beautifully so far. Ive already ran into about 3 problems that were fixed with the new features in 1.4, like the parentsUntil() function. However, the post today will be about the new element creation system using the core jQuery method, $(). In 1.4 you can now create an element by passing the tag name as the first parameter, and an object of attributes as the second. Continue reading...

While working on a project of mine, I wanted to be able to do a search, but have the post data be retained as named parameters (basically like a $_GET string). My first attempt was setting the form method to get, and trying to convert the $_GET by doing some mod_rewrite magic. This didn't work out at all, mainly because I couldn't get it to work for multiple named parameters. The only alternative I found was suggested by someone in the Google groups; they suggested posting a form to another action to deal with the logic, and finally redirect applying named parameters. This works perfectly, albeit adding an extra step in the process. Continue reading...

So I never worked much with named parameters before in CakePHP, but recently I needed a way to filter data. It seemed passing many arguments to the action wasn't the best or correct approach. So I went off and wrote my own method to grab the value of named parameters. Continue reading...