Yesterday, I wrote an AJAX shopping basket widget which, as I’m sure you can imagine, I wanted to refresh when items are added or deleted. However, having written the code to display the widget it confused me for a while … Continue reading
May 17th, 2012
This is a continuation of two previous articles, How to make a dynamic Sub-menu and How to make a dynamic sub-menu – UPDATE, which show the mechanisms by which you can build a dynamic submenu system, populating the dropdowns from the relevant controller. … Continue reading
May 1st, 2012
Here are some nice examples of using the logging facilities in Yii PHP | copy code |? 0102 ‘log’=>array(03 ‘class’=>’CLogRouter’,04 ‘routes’=>array(05 array(06 ‘class’=>’CWebLogRoute’,07 // you can include more levels separated by commas08 ‘levels’=>’trace, info, error, warning, vardump’,09 // categories are those you used in the … Continue reading
April 24th, 2012
I needed an email mechanism for a customer that was light and easy to configure. Yii extensions I tried several email extensions from the Yii website all of which I found overly complex to setup and use. I then remembered … Continue reading
April 5th, 2012
WordPress 3.0 introduced the ability for plugin developers to build their own custom post types. This means that the main data is held in the same table as your WordPress posts and pages and therefore means that other core wordpress … Continue reading
March 29th, 2012
Preamble For several weeks now I have been on the holy grail, trawling through OLD wpsc/wpec documentation and scouring the interweb for the answer to the primary SEO criticism of WordPress eCommerce. Even the latest 3.8.8 beta still does not … Continue reading
March 21st, 2012
Overview Whilst trying to customise a bought in template and digging around in a customer’s WordPress eCommerce system, it occurred to me that there is a fundamental design flaw in the system from two perspectives. Both have to do with the way that Products are assigned to … Continue reading
March 21st, 2012
Part 2 (see part 1 here) PHP | copy code |? 1 array(2 ‘class’=>’CButtonColumn’,3 ‘template’=>’{update}{add}{delete}’, Always set the class to CButtonColumn. The ‘template’ option enables you to name your buttons as you wish. Yii understands the basic crud names of ‘update’, ‘view’ and ‘delete’ but … Continue reading
February 28th, 2012
This was a tough one today and I found the solution in a number of places, but this one was the most helpful. Problem I’ve got an Property Rental application which also holds availability by dates for each property. If … Continue reading
February 23rd, 2012
I recently spent an hour or so trying to reduce the width of columns in a CGridView. As I was trying to squash the grid into a narrow space, I wanted some columns to be narrower than others. I tried … Continue reading
February 21st, 2012
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