Monthly Archives: October 2011

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Editing Read more text and template files HTML in Joomla 1.5

In my latest Joomla 1.5 website i wanted to change “Read more…” text to “Click to continue…”. In fact I did not like the wide new row for each “Read more…” text with intro text and just wanted to put it on the same line. Continue reading

MYSQL custom sorting – order by field value

Yesterday i had a somewhat new (for me ) and different kind of requirement while displaying MySQL result on a page. I had a category menu in which masters and slaves were sorted alphabetically and in ascending order. Continue reading

What do you hate about CakePHP?

After looking at an interesting Google group topic
Poll: what do you hate about CakePHP? i have tried to sum up the facts which people reasoned for hating/disliking CakePHP. Please be noted that all the facts listed here are based on users postings in the very topic and I have not tried to reproduce/test them all in a working environment. So, please Continue reading

SVN checkout wordpress plugin files

Today i was looking for an effective word press plugin which should help me to manage and modify the look and feel of tags ‘cloud’ box in my this very page. After a short research i found one ultimate-tag-warrior and decided to use it. Continue reading

Category: Miscelleneous

Useful string manipulation helpers in CakePHP

CakePHP comes with a bunch of useful helpers and components which provide handy tools for processing and manipulating data. These helpers are not only the valuable assets for the a framework user, but can be of great help to someone writing a core php application and not using the CakePHP framework. Continue reading

Category: CakePHP

CSS and rounded corner example

This is the very first CSS rounded corner technique i learned and used. If someone interested can use it without any doubt. Although, it may look like having too many ‘div’ layers in it, it is a good one, not to say works in all browsers well. Continue reading