http://www.hirdweb.com Another Blog clogging up the already crowded internet Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:03:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the country starts in the festivities to lay to rest this past year, many people come up with lists, a la "10 Best Somethings of 2008". Sometimes the lists even expand to 25. And if you are VH1 and MTV, with little to no viewership and the most horrible ... http://www.hirdweb.com/2008/12/31/so-long-2008/ Just a quick post, as this is now December and I have not posted for almost a month. But this is another simple, and easy, and sometimes forgotten idea among the web programming world. Never pass up the opportunity to learn something new. I know this sounds really easy, and ... http://www.hirdweb.com/2008/12/17/never-pass-up-the-opportunity-to-learn/ With checking ACL's, the code I use is as follows: $info = $this->Member->read(null, $id); // Check for permissions to edit this account if ( !$this->Acl->check(array('model' => 'Member', 'foreign_key' => $this->Auth->user('member_id')), $info['Member']['username'], 'update') ) { $this->Session->setFlash(__('You are not allowed to edit this user. -- ' . $this->Auth->user('member_id'), true)); $this->redirect(array('action'=>'index')); } While this works and is not that bad ... http://www.hirdweb.com/2008/11/17/central-acl-check/ After doing a few posts on Access Control Lists (ACLs), the need to look further into the implementation of ACLs in a CakePHP project could be helpful. If there are questions on setting up the ACL tri-table in the database, you can review the previous postings, or check out the ... http://www.hirdweb.com/2008/11/05/acl-implementation/ In some applications on the web, you are required to log in to view content, post content, or any other sort of thing. With this, there will be times when a member of the site/application/whatever will forget the password they used, and it will have to be reset for them. ... http://www.hirdweb.com/2008/10/27/resetting-the-passwords/ Another quick post. This has some info on the "intrawebs" but there is also bad data out there. Say you have a form, that has some info on it that requires a good amount of data to be input by the end user. If the user leaves the form to ... http://www.hirdweb.com/2008/10/15/alert-message-when-the-form-is-not-complete/ It is finally October and I have not posted one thing yet. I was in California last week though. However that should not be an excuse for the lack of posting I have made. I really wanted to be able to post at least once a week, trying for twice ... http://www.hirdweb.com/2008/10/08/october-posting/ In preparation for the Zend Certification Exam (ZCE), Zend provides a great (sarcasm) online practice test that consists of 8 questions. That is right, 8 questions. A certification exam that consists of 70 questions and Zend offers 8 questions. And the other thing with the practice test, is that if ... http://www.hirdweb.com/2008/09/26/zend-certification-practice-exam/ I did not post on Monday, which I really wanted to do. I am studying for the Zend Certification, but may have to put it off based on work load, and family obligations. Do I think I can just take the exam and pass it? Well, I am not that ... http://www.hirdweb.com/2008/09/18/ghost-town/ Another quick post this week, as I am bogged down in work and preparing for a Zend Certification Exam. I am going to be taking the exam for Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE). While I do not expect it to be much problem, these types of exams are usually worded in ... http://www.hirdweb.com/2008/09/08/zend-certification/