Full-text indexes can be used only with MyISAM tables, and can be created only for CHAR, VARCHAR, or TEXTcolumns.

It did take a little bit of experimentation to get the syntax for the query correct in CakePHP as the query is a little different from the regular “SELECT field FROM table WHERE somevalue = somevalue“.

So, for this example I will use a MyISAM table called pages and search against the title, content and tags fields for the term” jquery web development”. You should substitute that term with your dynamically passed value in the code below.

Firstly I built the conditions for my query into a “params” array.

$params= array(’conditions’ => array(
‘MATCH(Page.title,Page.description,Page.tags)
AGAINST(”jquery web development” )’ ));

Finally a call to CakePHP’s native find method will perform the search:

$this->Page->find(’all’,$params);

One last note: MySQL full text search can be powerful when used correctly and a potential bottleneck when poorly implemented. I suggest reading the documentation for further information and more advanced usage.

For instance, we had to research the private health insurance industry to see exactly what services were offered and what users were likely to search for when they were trying to find private medical insurance. In doing so, we realised that there are a great number of concepts in the health insurance industry that were not understood to the leyman. Even the costs or the ability to use private medical insurance to fast track in the NHS were concepts new to us. So we were researchers in the medical insurance industry.

Then we found ourselves having to compose press-releases, articles and surveys connected to the health insurance industry in order to help people better understand once they hit the site as well as change site copy to make a balance between discovery by search engines and human readability. So we were copywriters.

Finally we had to get all this information into a well-presented and readable report showing what people were searching for when they were looking for medical insurance and what the effects of our works was. So were statisticians.

SEO seems such a misnomer for the work that goes into driving relevant traffic to sites. So we now opt for the label Online Marketing.

If you get caught in the Leopard Setup Assistant Loop Bug, here is the way to get your Mac booting again with no loss of data.

1. Boot into Safe Mode by holding down the shift key just after you hear the first boot sound. This takes an eternity so be patient.
2. Don’t log in to any account. Instead press the back arrow key once (this will highlight an account).
3. Then click the restart button.
4. Now just wait while your Mac performs some updates and then reboots as normal again.

Even Macs break occasionally / rarely.

The first is something I use quite alot when I am giving users the ability to administer lists of items in bulk. That including a checkbox that when checked sets the state of all the checkboxes beside a list of items to “checked”. Naturally unchecking it will uncheck all checkboxes. I’m sure you get the picture here’s the code based on two scenarios depending on your preference. But firstly you need to include the jQuery library in the head of your document (I grab mine straight from Google’s repository to save my bandwidth):

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

and then somewhere in your document a controller checkbox that toggles all the others (note the call to toggleChecked when the state of the checkbox changes):

<input type="checkbox" onclick="toggleChecked(this.checked)"> Select / Deselect All

Now here are  two versions of the toggleChecked function dependent on the semantics of your document. The only real difference is the jQuery selector for your list checkboxes:

1: All checkboxes have a class of  “checkbox” (<input type=”checkbox” class=”checkbox” />)
function toggleChecked(status) {
$(".checkbox").each( function() {
$(this).attr("checked",status);
})
}

2: All the checkboxes are contained within a div with an arbitary id:

<div id="checkboxes">
<input type="checkbox" />
<input type="checkbox" />
<input type="checkbox" />
</div>

In this case the function would look like this:

function toggleChecked(status) {
$("#checkboxes input").each( function() {
$(this).attr("checked",status);
})


Have fun!

The issue seems to be tied to PHP 5.1.2 and the way regular expressions are handled, however it seems the it may appear in other configurations too. Before I get to a workaround, note I haven’t levelled the “bug” word at either PHP nor CakePHP – for all I know it could be a difference of opinion on how something should be handled. What I do know is that I would rather harness CakePHP’s flexibility to create custom model rules than try upgrading my current live server PHP installation.

Here is an example of how you should be able to implement the alphaNumeric rule using validation in CakePHP based on a simpliefied model called “User”:
class User extends AppModel

{
var $name = 'User';
var $helpers = array('Form');
var $validate = array(
'username' => array(
'loginRule-1' => array(
'rule' => 'alphaNumeric',
'last' => true,
'message' => 'Only letters and numbers allowed'
));
}

The rule in bold italics above is the one that doesn’t always work. However this can be easily rectified with a custom rule built on a regular expression seeking out valid alphanumeric strings.

To achieve this the alphaNumeric rule just needs to be replaced with this:

"rule" => array('custom', '/^[a-z0-9]*$/i'),

Problem solved.

The answer lies in a command line tool called screen.

Screen allows you to start a process on a virtual screen, then detach that screen and do something else (including log out). You can also reattach your screen after logging out and logging in again.

If you dont have the screen command on your remote linux box, first install it either from source or using your favourite package manager. Then login into your remote box and run your desired command prefixed with “screen”. For example:

screen top

Now to detach the screen use CTRL+a followed by d. This will detach your screen and you can go about any other business, including quitting your remote session.

Reattaching you screen at any time is as simple as running the command:

screen -r

You can detach and reatach your screen as much as you want until your running process is finished or you kill it, at which point your virtual screen is killed too.

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In case you are wondering why it is so hard to find: the school is fairly new and is listed as a plot of land still on the Junta’s site. I’m guessing the amount of paper work needed to get a website change actioned is far greater than the parent’s need to contact a school.

The official listing is here.

TMax Media designed the site and Zumo Internet cut the code and programmed the CMS and front end from start to finish with a smooth blend of XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and jQuery. More reason to trust us with your web site development.

The issue lies in node names containing hyphens, thus:

$object->album-title     returns     0

The answer is to wrap the object property (node name) containing the hyphen in curly braces.

$object->{’album-title’}     returns     “London Calling”

Here’s hoping that helps someone.