Sam Collett put together a great jQuery plugin for select box manipulation. It allows for the easy adding, removing, sorting, selecting, and copying of options in a select box without the need of loops. I downloaded the original from his site, http://www.texotela.co.uk/code/jquery/select/, and started getting it up and running. Except for the fact that you can not do a post request the... [more]

I've been working hard to get thompsonbd.com ported over to CakePHP 1.2. Originally, I had a custom build "framework" that I used to string the site together. After having worked with CakePHP at my day job for the past six or seven months, I couldn't wait to bring home the things learned while at the office and try some it out on my own site. Even after working heavily in a LAMP environment for the past four or five years, I had never... [more]

Updated: I've released a working version of the oracle connection class that does not need behaviors to utilize bind variables. We ran into some more issues using the CakePHP Clob behavior that Bobby Borisov and Nedko Penev wrote. Basically, the issue was that the original file used a reference variable to the model that was supposed to be using the behavior. However, it... [more]

This code snippet is a simple example of how I build the "Blog Archive " Element. // get list of blog entries // ------------------------ $archive = $this->Blog->BlogEntry->findAll(     null,     array(         'BlogEntry.id',         'BlogEntry.created'     ), [more]