flexing my kerkness, among other things
I invite everyone to check out the Unofficial Kohana 3.0 Wiki.
The purpose of this Wiki is to provide a place where the Kohana community can collaborate on documentation and tutorials and to provide a staging ground for writing official documentation.
Posted in Code.
– October 14, 2009
Now that Kohana version 3.0 has reached a release candiate version I have also moved the Kohana-For-Wordpress plugin into a RC1 status and thought it would be useful to post some usage examples. Click here to download the plugin
There are five ways which you can call a Kohana controller from wordpress
1 – Use wordpress permalinks, .htaccess and Kohana default routing
2 – Use wordpress dashboard to bind kohana controllers to wordpress pages
3 – Use a template tag to call a controller from your wordpress templates
4 – Use a shortcut tag to call a controller from within a wordpress post or page
5 – Add a KohanaWidget to your wordpress sidebar
Follow the Wordpress instructions to set up permalinks for your blog. I use a custom permalink structure of /%postname%/ which works well. If you do this then you can also call any valid Kohana controller as long as the controller name does not conflict with your post name.
For example. If you have the following Kohana controller in application/classes/controller/mycontroller you’ll be able to call this controller from the url http:/myblogurl.com/mycontroller.
Important things to remember: You’re controller will be loaded as if it is the content of a wordpress page. The page content will be whatever you set as your controller response. The title of the page however is taken from the wordpress database by default. To set the title of your page with your Kohana controller you must update the ‘title’ property of the Kohana request object as shown below
$this->request->title = “My Page Title”;
If you go to the Settings > Kohana section of your wordpress dashboard you’ll have the ability to set some custom page routing. Simply enter the Kohana controller ( controller/action/id ) in the appropriate input field and select a wordpress page from the dropdown menu. You also have the option to set the desired placement of the controller’s response.
From any wordpress template or theme file you have the option of calling a Kohana Controller using the following syntax
<?php kohana(’controller/action/id’); ?>
If you want to call a Kohana Controller directly from a Wordpress post or page just use the following syntax when editing your content
[ request controller/action/id ]
From the Apperance > Widget section of your dashboard add the KohanaWidget to your sidebar and provide a title and the controller you wish to call ( example controller/action/id )
For more support and to get answers to your questions head to http://forum.kohanaphp.com
Posted in Code.
– August 9, 2009
On CatsWhoCode.com today there’s a new article listing fifteen handy regular expressions you might find useful in your day-to-day development (as well as a brief introduction to what regular expressions are).
Regular expressions are a very useful tool for developers. They allow to find, identify or replace text, words or any kind of characters. In this article, I have compiled 15+ extremely useful regular expressions that any web developer should have in his toolkit.
Here’s just some of the expressions on the list:
Posted in PHP.
– July 28, 2009
While not specifically related to caching in PHP applications, this recent post from developer.com has some good reminders of how much the right kind of caching can help your application to really fly.
If you’re looking at performance and you want to get some quick wins, the obvious place to start is caching. Caching as a concept is focused exclusively around improving performance. [...] Fundamentally caching has one limitation – managing updates – and several decisions. In this article, we’ll explore the basic options for caching and their impact on performance.
They talk about three different update methods – a synchronized update, lazy update and a read-through strategy (where the caching functionality itself can force a re-read of the original source). There’s also a brief look at options to consider when caching data and how you’re going to manage that cache once you’ve filled it with data.
Posted in PHP.
– July 28, 2009
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Posted in PHP.
– July 28, 2009
NETTUTS.com has posted Day 2 of their “CodeIgniter from Scratch” series of vidcasts following up on the first day.
Continuing on from day 1, today, I’ll teach you five different ways to write select statements for your database. If you haven’t watched the first entry in this video series, don’t worry; each video can function on its own as a single tutorial. Having said that, I highly recommend that you watch each screencast.
You can watch the vidcast through their in-page player or just grab the source code for their examples and get to work.
Posted in PHP.
– July 28, 2009
The second part of the IBM developerWorks series looking at the Agavi PHP framework has been posted. In it Vikram Vaswani loks at adding forms and database support to his example via Doctrine.
While Agavi can certainly be used to serve up static content, it really shines when you use it for something more complex. And in this second part, you’ll do just that – over the next few pages, you’ll learn how to receive, validate, and process input from Web forms, as well as connect your Agavi application to a MySQL database.
He returns to his simple templated example site and shows how to use the command line agavi tool to create the routing and controller to handle the “contact us” requests. He includes form validation examples, how to use the population filter, and how to generate the Doctrine models to connect with the form directly.
Posted in PHP.
– July 28, 2009
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Posted in PHP.
– July 28, 2009
The php|architect blog has posted the second part of Cal Evans’ series looking at the typical lifecycle of a project – Development, Testing, Acceptance and Production.
In the previous part of this series, we discussed the main pieces needed for a proper development environment. However, there are other, smaller pieces, scripts, subsystems and other very important components of a properly-configured development environment that don’t fit in the acronym.
This second part of the series looks at the “T” in DTAP – testing. It mentions unit testing, integration testing and regression testing. He also touches briefly on “refresh scripts” to handle data updates or pushes out to another stage of the process.
Posted in PHP.
– July 28, 2009
In this new tutorial from DevShed today they continue their series looking at making helper classes for your applications. This time they’re focusing on using methods without needing to create an object first – static methods.
The methods of the class that I [just] mentioned were declared implicitly dynamic, even though it’s perfectly possible to call them statically, and the PHP engine won’t raise any errors about this process. However, it would be much better to declare these methods explicitly static, thus taking advantage of the functionality offered by the text helper class without having to spawn an instance of it.
They show how to define the methods with the “static” keyword so they can be called outside of the class’ scope. Code for the helper class and the code to put it to use.
Posted in PHP.
– July 28, 2009
