Comments on: What’s In Chris’ Brain: November 2007 Edition

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:48:39 +0000

Matt: For CakePHP specific code completions, you’ll need to add the cake library directory to Komodo’s list of known PHP library references, see:
http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/komodo-and-cakephp#comment-3405

By: Chris Hartjes

Chris Hartjes — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:07:45 +0000

@Chris Meller
Yeah, I managed to figure out that you could use $this->load->view(…) in your templates after searching around some more.

I will say this: despite there being a very clear user guide for CI, it still took a lot of digging around to find what I felt was a simple answer. A very similar experience for people who are trying to find out info about CakePHP as well, but at least now there is a manual online for CakePHP 1.2.

By: Travis Swicegood

Travis Swicegood — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:55:53 +0000

Oh man – that DBGp in vim is awesome. That’s geekiness on steriods…

By: Chris Meller

Chris Meller — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:51:32 +0000

I use Code Igniter frequently, along with what you apparently refer to as “reusable views”.

For example, I have a header and a footer view that contain my basic HTML that will be included on every page. So I call my normal view:
$this->load->view('user/login');

In that view, I have load two other views (the header and footer):

$headers['title'] = 'Login Page'; $this->load->view('header', $headers);

$this->load->view('footer');

So the “reusable views” are really no different than any other view. While CakePHP splits them out specifically into ‘elements’ (IIRC), Code Igniter doesn’t do any special abstraction.

Hopefully my code didn’t get mangled…

By: Matt Curry

Matt Curry — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:22:14 +0000

Hey Chris,
I use the free version of Komodo to develope CakePHP apps. Generally I have no complaints, except for the occasional hard crash.

The one feature I wish I had was CakePHP specific code completion. There was a thread in the Google Group a few weeks ago about getting this to work in Eclipse by adding a fake include file to your project. One of these days when I get the time I was going to try something similar with Komodo.

-Matt

By: Georgi Momchilov

Georgi Momchilov — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:45:51 +0000

“Man, how much time should someone spend refactoring code they’ve inherited? Is it really true that people think everyone else’s code is ugly and theirs is a paragon a beauty?”

Absolutely… I guess programmers are quite a haughty tribe