You wanted to install the prototype framework with the scriptaculous effects to my cakePHP Application, but after uploading the prototype files into the webroot/js folder and linking them in the layout, i got a failure message like "Undefined variable: javascript".

Several times a week it seems, someone at my office is asking, “Jamie, should I use $this->element() or $this->requestAction()?”

Every time they ask, I ask them back, “What do you need to do?”

There are a few simple ways to determine if using an element is better or a request action is better.

Ive found this site useful to me since i'm learning cakephp with ajax. The tutorial is about creating cakephp with ajax using prototype and scriptaculous javascript.

Do you want the month and year listing in the side bar for all your previous posts?
This one(1) line of django snippets solves that problem. Django is awesome!

Marcelius just created a Cakephp helper named PHPSpeedy, it reads the HTML, and replaces all < link src="" /> and < script src="" /> with only one call to a cached, minified version for javascript, and one for css. This reduces the number of HTTP requests the browser has to do for each page request.

Software automates different aspects of our life bringing efficiency coupled with huge savings of time. But what about lives of software developers? There has always been a way to automate their work, but it hasn't been used widely. One of the reasons is that developers are quite efficient by themselves leaving business managers without a queston about boosting development efficency.

A few months back, I have been struggling to have openID authentication loaded to my application. It’s a hazard… the simple idea of having it integrated to my application and have users logged in using their existing facebook, google account is pretty fancy, but the code behind it is a mess, a complete tragedy.

There are quite few posts how to use Zend framework in Codeigniter.

1. Beyond Coding
2. Freakauth
3. Phil’s post

However none of them worked on my XAMPP. I thought there might be some who are struggling to use Zend frame work on Windows. Here is how I did.
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I have read a note in Codeigniter captcha_pi.php. You can find this file in system/plugins.
However this does not explain well. This post hopefully explains how to use this plugin. And I will show a bit different way in the next post.