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Posts from ‘February, 2009’

Elliott & Co Solicitors

Its not very often that I get to actually design a website, instead of putting them together and making them go. Still it’s fun once in a while.
Elliott & Co Solicitors have two offices in The West Midlands in the UK in Birmingham and Wombourne on the edge of Wolverhampton.
The company has been established for [...]

Set ACL Permissions

Note to Self
su – root
setfacl -R -m user:webadmin:rwx /var/www/vhosts/<new domain>

Don’t add a component twice

Last week I spent an annoyingly long time tracking down a bug caused by what was basically a simple typo.
I discovered that my controller redirects (e.g. $this->redirect(array(‘action’=>’index’)); )were failing, but without generating any errors at all (that I could find).
Eventually I tracked down the cause by just taking the whole controller apart and [...]

Setting the ‘admin’ path using $html->link

Usually CakePHP can work out when link needs to be within the /admin/ section of your site. Sometimes however it needs a little help. When this happens you need to add ‘admin’ => true to the list of parameters.

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echo $html->link($data[’SomeModel’][’name’], array( ‘controller’ => ’some_controller’, ‘action’ => ‘index’, ‘admin’ => true));