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30Jan/120

CakePHP 1.3 helper auto-complete in netbeans

CakePHP 1.3 introduced a new way to use helpers. This was added to prevent confusion between helper variables and local variables added to the view file. You can access helper methods in a view by using $this->Helper->method(). This way make a problem if you want to use auto-complete for helpers introduced in a previous article

30Aug/1012

CakePHP debug in NetBeans

Break point in NetBeans

Debugging code can be the most vital task a developer required to do. Debugging makes it easy to find logical errors in code. NetBeans supports PHP debug using xdebug, but in CakePHP it is hard to make this work straight. This is due to custom, pretty, URL rewriting. However you can enable debugging even with pretty URLs and URL rewriting.

12Feb/1028

CakePHP support in NetBeans

NetBeans is a very powerful development environment for many languages including PHP. With the release of its latest version, NetBeans announced full support for symfony PHP framework. NetBeans can also support many other PHP frameworks and libraries although it is not officially supported by NetBeans. This support needs some effort to enable some tools specially auto-complete, or intellisense, which saves a lot of time for developers.

We will start to make NetBeans support CakePHP. Firstly we need to create a cake project using cake command line tools.

21Jan/105

A Quick jQuery tutorial

A quick jQuery tutorial which I found during my preparation for 'jQuery How To Start' series of tutorials for learning the amazing JavaScript library. This is a slideshow which I liked and liked to share it with you. It introduces some basic features of jQuery and shows some advanced uses of this library like jQuery-UI the jquery library which is used to create UI effects and widgets.