milesjohnson

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...

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...

For the past week I have been working on a DataSource for the WeGame API. Everything was working fine until I added some logic to cache the results. From there I ran into a few problems, here is how I resolved it. Continue reading...

I have been working lately on adding an installation process to my forum plugin. For this process I needed a way to retrieve a list of tables within a selected database, to make sure there are no table name conflicts. You simply use the ConnectionManager class. Continue reading...

Cake 1.3 has been around for quite some time now, but I never had the desire to upgrade with it being in such a beginning stage. Well seeing as how its now in Alpha and many users are testing it with no problems, I thought it would be a good idea. Heres how it went. Continue reading...