Yii drop down menu
Drop down menus won’t work as described in the CMenu reference. After much scratching of the head I found an extension which was extremely simple to install and use. MbMenu
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Yii clean URL rewrites for static pages
I have just started writing a full site in PHP. More details on what it is later but for now I will be posting snippets that I find useful as I work with Yii for the first time. To get clean URL’s you need to do the normal stuff as per the Yii tutorials. Including [...]
Upgrading to php 5.3 in Centos 5.6
Very simple to use repository at Atomic Corp. Thanks guys http://www6.atomicorp.com/channels/atomic/
switch off open_basedir across all domains in a plesk server
I have a client who wants to turn off open_basedir as he using cross domain includes. I have recommend against doing this for security reason but he has insisted. I was initially looking at modifying the ./conf/vhost.conf file for each domain and adding the open_basedir config but found a quicker way. add a file called. [...]
php mail command doesn’t work. Plesk 9
If you have swapped the MTA from postfix back to qmail then the mail() command in php may not work. This is because the symbolic link to the /usr/sbin/sendmail compatibility program is broken. Execute these commands as root.
Eclipse PDT in Ubuntu.
Very Very easy. Full instructions here with explanation I will be installomg php, mysql and apache for use with this. If everything else works ok I will have a script develop.sh which will start apache, mysql, and eclipse up. When I quit eclipse it will close down apache and mysql. I will do this to [...]
Using Zend Components not too complicated after all.
I have installed the ZendFramework Library to a central location and added it to the php include path. The code below then worked very quickly and easily so I am now prepared to go further with this experiment.I found the answer here thanks to BrianM By using a centrally loaded library and sharing it rather [...]
Write components from scratch, use Zend FrameWork components or go for the full Zend MVC Framework
I have finally cleared the decks of all outstanding work and am ready to get back down to some serious PHP development work. I have a few projects lined up and each of them have some common requirements. Previously I haven’t used much OOP but want to go down this route purely for the purposes [...]
Lots of examples for styling forms in CSS
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/11/11/css-based-forms-modern-solutions/
10 Table Designs
Not a bad article over here for CSS table designs. The article itself could do with a little more detail but if you are familiar with CSS then you can download the source for the article via a link at the end. Some very nice clean and simple ideas here.