For small Cake websites with admin routing enabled, I like to use the Auth component to require a login for all admin routes, and allow access to everything else using the following beforeFilter in the AppController superclass:
function beforeFilter(){
$admin = Configure::read('Routing.admin');
if (isset($this->params[$admin]) and $this->params[$admin]){
[...]
Posted on April 7th, 2009 by Dave
Filed under: CakePHP, Technology, Web | 5 Comments »
In the first part of my CakePHP tutorial, I showed you how to use Cake’s Bake utility to set up the basic back end of an online illustration portfolio. In this part, I’ll tweak the automatically generated code into useable website and admin section and show you how to use some of Cake’s features along [...]
Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Dave
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A friend of mine recently asked me to help him build an online portfolio for his illustration pieces, and I decided to use CakePHP 1.2 to get the back end up and running quickly. I thought someone might find a tutorial taking a simple website through from start to finish useful, so this tutorial series [...]
Posted on March 28th, 2009 by Dave
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As you may know, if it can’t find an index.html the apache web server will show a list of files in the current directory. I was browsing through lists of images on my file server the other day and I thought, wouldn’t it be nice to have a next button? So I started digging around.
In [...]
Posted on March 1st, 2009 by Matt
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Today I had a go at installing awesome window manager. awesome is a great tiling window manager, useful if you have a large monitor and are fed up with having one window taking up all the space when it doesn’t really need it all. For example, having firefox maximised on a 1920×1200 resolution monitor can [...]
Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by Dave
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I recently discovered the wonders of skype, and tried to get my new webcam working with it under linux, and of course this proved to be quite tricky. After much fiddling I eventually got it to work, hopefully these steps will work for you too.
Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Dave
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When adding posts to my TiddlyWiki, I oft found myself craving vi, rather than a simple textarea. There were a few options that involved using a plugin for Firefox such as mozEx, and using an external program to edit textareas. However, I found a nice ‘integrated’ option instead.
Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Dave
Filed under: TiddlyWiki | 3 Comments »
This post is adapted from my LatexRenderPluginDoc page on my wiki, so might contain a couple of errors on the copy over. If something doesn’t seem right, refer to that page, and please tell me in a comment below.
This uses LatexRender, my simple TiddlyWiki macro, LatexRenderPlugin, and a custom script I created for the purpose, [...]
Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Dave
Filed under: TiddlyWiki | 1 Comment »