In my recent CakePHP application I use some custom SQL queries that I fire at the database using the $model->query($sql) syntax. Works great, until you have an error in your $sql. I tried the obvious error handling with try … catch: try {   $this->Model->query(’INSERT INTO model WHERE id=invalid’); } catch (exception $ex) {   [...]

To prevent an error like preg_replace_callback() [function.preg-replace-callback]: Requires argument 2, ‘function_name’, to be a valid callback, use the following snippet: $text = preg_replace_callback(     ‘((http(s?)\://){1}\S+)’,     array(get_class($this), ‘function_name’),     $text ); The trick is to call the method like so: array(get_class($this), ‘__shortUrl’)

When newly created tables don’t show up when using the console application cake bake then it’s time to clean out the model cache. The model cache is located in /app/tmp/cache/models/

For my latest project, using PHP/MySQL, I wanted to use a framework to take some of the repetitive from me. I’ve looked at a number of frameworks, and here are some of my findings.

I’ve been playing with tiddlywiki a bit lately, and I haven’t been very impressed with it. I’ve been looking at some alternatives, because I do like the wiki way of creating and editing pages very much. And I found DokuWiki to be a very nice wiki. It’s light-weight It doesn’t require a database (pages are [...]

There’s been a lot of buzz about tiddlywiki lately. Here’s a quote from the original tiddlywiki site: TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki – including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it’s a single file, it’s [...]