Adventures in IT

When developing a website I usually consider how long it will take to code the site, template it, and test it.  Then I add a whole lot of extra time to make it work in Internet Explorer. A Microsoft User - ready to use the interweb In a way Microsoft's refusal to believe that there is a world of computing outside of Redmond is a good thing - it means that I get more billable hours per project.  Of course those billable hours are spent in frustrating searches through Google to try and work out all of the various quirks and bugs in Internet Explorer. I tend to think of Microsoft Internet Explorer users as "special needs" kids who are being set loose in the playground that is the Internet.  Barely able to prevent themselves from drooling on their keyboards and eating their mouses they demand that websites conform to their special needs.  Standards such as Javascript DOM level 2, HTML5, CSS, CSS3 are pretty much ignored because their parent doesn't believe in mode...

This technique may be useful if for example you have decided to use Wordpress to handle your blog, rather than trying to code your own competing blog system. This .htaccess file is based on the CakePHP default but simply adds a rewrite rule to exclude the "blog" directory from Cake's control. <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c=""%gt; RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(blog).* - [NC,L] RewriteRule ^blog /blog [L] RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L] RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L] </ifmodule%gt; If you want to prevent Cake from controlling multiple directories you can simply modify the rewrite rule like such: RewriteRule ^(blog|my|other|directories|go|here).* - [NC,L] In order to accomplish this on an IIS server you can email sballmer@microsoft.com and ask for support in getting his expensive software to do what it says it does on the box.

CakePHP automagically generates textboxes for users, but it's usually a project requirement that these boxes are "user friendly". Adding CK editor to CakePHP is easy, but lets go a few steps further and give it the ability to allow users to upload images directly into their content and to select a list of pages when creating a link. This article is based heavily on two articles ( Adding file upload in CK editor and Adding a ‘Link to local page from site’ field ) which I have simply modified to be CakePHP specific. So all credits to Ben Roberts and Zac. Step 1 - Adding CK editor to CakePHP with the FileManager plugin 1) Download CK editor from the official site and unzip it into your /app/webroot/js directory. To make things easy I put it in /app/webroot/ckeditor directory. 2) Download FCK editor from the same site.  It was at the bottom of the CK downloads page (because it is deprecated).  Unzip it to a temporary directory and copy the filemanager directory (fcke...