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) {   [...]

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 [...]