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Well, I finally did it! After 3 hours of trial and error I finally got my custom URL’s for the Paginator Helper. Considering the amount of time it took me to achieve my desired URL format, I’ll share my solution with you. I don’t know if it’s the best solution out there (I didn’t find [...]

Recently I implemented a payment module using Alertpay. If you searched for this kind of code you already know what Alertpay is. For those of you who don’t, Alertpay is a payment processor similar to Paypal. To implement this type of payment you must register for an account and activate the IPN option from the [...]

Question: How do I paginate data from a model based on a keyword submitted by a user? I must say that it’s a little tricky because the Pagination component in CakePHP uses GET parameters to do it’s magic. That wouldn’t be a problem if I didn’t care about my URL structure but for SEO purposes [...]

Ever needed to connect to another database in your cake app but got stuck and came with another solution? There is a rather simple way to do this and I think it can be extended to other data sources too (not tested but let me know if you do ). Let’s get to it. First [...]

Today I started a new project that I’m developing for school and I thought I’d do it using cakePHP. I went ahead and downloaded xampp for linux and a fresh copy of the cakePHP framework, 1.3.0-RC3, and I extracted it to my webroot. After I created a virtual host for it, it was time to [...]

I continue sharing with you bits of code from my JAVA project picking up the thread left in Running SQL queries in JAVA. I remind you that I must develop a library application for school project. So far I showed you how I connected to a database and how I manipulate data from that database. [...]

In a previous post, Connecting to Access database in JAVA, I’ve shared a little snippet of code with you that showed how to connect to an Access DBMS. With the connection alone you can’t do much to the database excepting the connection. We need to manipulate the data found in the database we connected to. [...]

Hi there, I started a project for school that I must develop in JAVA. It’s a library system that uses Access databases for data and settings storage. I’m not going into any more details about the analysis of the problem but it’s obvious that I needed to setup a connection to the database. In this [...]

After a while from launching the Shoutbox script, I decided to act on some feedback that I got from you guys (and girls!?). So I implemented the following features: emoticons – just type the character codes from y!messenger to display the emoticon (only 14 emoticons implemented); I tried to implement protection against javascript code being [...]

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