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Posts from ‘January, 2007’

A to Z links with CakePHP

On a lot of websites, especially directories or those which contain large amounts of alphabetical data you see A to Z lists. You know the idea, click on a A and see every entry beginning with A, click on B… etc.
then…

Well, here is how to do it with Cake (a new PHP application development framework). It [...]

Yesterday in PHP

$yesterday = date(“d/m/Y”, time()-86400);
(I have a mental block and can never rember if it is PHP or MySQL with the %Y etc.)

Things on Paper

Planning the design of my new project – Art Thing (http://www.art-thing.co.uk)
It is going to be a kind of gallery and exhibition guide, but anybody is free to register and add a review. It has some very cool stuff like a geo-coding system that will show you any gallery using embedded goggle maps.

Cook up Web sites fast with CakePHP

I was reading the Google Group for Cake PHP today, one of the posts mentioned a link to a really good set of tutorials about Cake, which I have been reading this afternoon. You need to register for an IBM id but it definately worth it – I wish I had found out about the articles a [...]

Slowfall Projects

After a very long time, I’ve finnished the Slowfall Website (http://www.slowfall.org) – the framework is complete and most of the old content has now been moved over. Now that something so gorgeous exists, hopefully everybody will use it a little more.