Monthly Archives: June 2008

Actionscript – Loading Acute and UTF-8 Characters from XML into Dynamic Text with Flash

Writing flexible applications in Flash is easy, (/me points in the direction of my XML Configuration Class) and there’s few reasons why all your text strings should not be read in at run time to allow for easy internationalization. However, … Continue reading

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Validating Image Uploads in CakePHP

Following on from my article on CakePHP – Uploaded File Validation in Models, today’s snippet will show you how to use Cake’s validation rules to reject invalid images, or images which do not conform to a specified mime-type. This code … Continue reading

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Holiday Photography

I’m back from a week long holiday in the bay of Elounda, Crete. During my stay I took about 200 pictures using my trusty Samsung i6 my favourite of which were taken on the Island of Spinalonga which served as … Continue reading

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CakePHP – Activating User Account via Email

Continuing on from my User Registration with the AuthComponent post I’m going to cover how to activate user account’s via email. Before we get down to the code lets look at a simple use case first. Activating User Accounts Via … Continue reading

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CakePHP – Open_Basedir Restriction in Effect

Just deployed a CakePHP on a domain running PLESK and dismayed by the fact that your screen is over-flowing with warning about open_basedir restriction in effect? Fear not, the solution is straight forward (if a little frustrating to track down!) … Continue reading

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ActionScript 2.0 Configuration Class

This is an update to my original Actionscript 2.0 Configuration Class which I wrote back in February. It features a new access method for reading and writing values and allows you to load in external XML configuration documents with an … Continue reading

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CakePHP – Uploaded File Validation in Models

Allowing uploaded files from users in PHP is fraught with danger, however by using CakePHP 1.2 and a little bit of Validation magic we can make things a little safer. First, lets start by creating a simple upload form where … Continue reading

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