Working on another project, I needed a way to output PDFs with CakePHP. After looking around, I ended up choosing dompdf as the library to use to generate them. Overall, it went fairly smooth. We did hit one or two limitations (like nested tables (special circumstances!)) but otherwise it worked really well. In our case,...
When working on the WowweeTechShop, we decided to begin with the free Solo theme, and modify it to our clients needs. One change we wanted was to not use the lightbox on product pages when a product has multiple images. Rather, we wanted something that displayed thumbs of all the product images, and when a...
Last time, we looked at placing an ajax’ed Add to Cart button everywhere. The next place we want to ajax-up will be the Cart page. When the user updates the cart from that page, we will want to do it without a page load. The base theme I am modifying for this is the free...
So, as Web Directions USA 2010 (WDUSA10) draws to a close, time to reflect. Inevitably, I can’t help but compare some aspects to SXSW, even though this is a much smaller event. (prolly less than 300 people at anyone time). Only 2 tracks - design & dev. WDUSA10 clear winner on the name badges. I...
CSVer: A simple CakePHP plugin for generating CSV files from models. A task that’s common enough on a log of projects.
When it comes to mapping, here at Plank we’ve come to lean on the wonderful php-google-map-api class.
Just a moment...
