In this case, you might use two options:

• Straightforward find() function from App::Model (where you’ll have to handle the outpu of data yourself, and trying to fit the search results in your websites layout)
• Use Pagination functionality (which is designed for handling big chunks of data for you)

A simple example: from a small search menu, I need to get the data about item’s price, its type etc, so at this point, find() solution would look like:

Once you set results array in the view template, it will cause you few hours on how to rearrange data presentation, meanwhile you can use Pagination:

And in the view you might add some code like:

Last lines of the code would manage the results listing for you, which has to be defined in your Controller:

Done, now you can easily handle your search outputs.

as the result, getting:

I’ll miss these features if I move from this framework

Note: For simplicity reasons, I didn’t include queries, and just used option-arrays:

This is just a simple layout for calling AJAX methods, without database, sofisticated layout handling, routes etc (for these reasons we got CakePHP API, and CakePHP GoogleGroup)

The actual form would look like:

As the result, once you change the default value of the first select box, the second one automatically calls the controller’s method, which renders the values (gets the option list from the view file) and renders it in AJAX manner

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Keeping these deadlines in mind, the boss started to look for even faster alternative solutions. Well, and he found some.

Today’s working day started from the conversation, whether it’d be useful to buy a ready-made solution for his website, so I’ve decided to take a look at what he’s found:

1. Portfolio of 8 sites with “asdf” test data.
2. Admin is accessible with “admin/admin” username password combination
3. 7 out of 8 sites got partially finished control panels - working only 30% of it. (Data mismatch, no input validations, or JS validation only)

But the site my boss was especially interested in just rocked my heart. Here’s a screenshot:

It’s like: pay first, and you might get this CMS later

• Now I got wheels
• Now have to drink less.

1. You’re Windows IDE’s fan
2. You’ve never used Linux

An option “you’re using Emacs” is not included - you would have definetely known Vim. You’d hate it for the sake of “holly wars”.

I’m not an Emacs lover, neither those huge IDE’s with bunch of boxes, bookmarks, you name it. Most of these things are useless when you need to code something fast, so I just stuck with Vim: simple, light, fast, and have a lot of functionality. Here are just few tips of speeding up coding process I’ve been using lately:

If you got some repetitive function calls or anything you’re not bothered to print just fire up:

Comments:

Printing

or

will paste initial comment pattern.

Minus another dozen of lines to be typed.

Text search:

You can

which will enable incremental search for you, or use regexp, like:

will find you “agent” in current file.

Using ftp:

These are just basics, Bram Moolenaar, the developer of Vim, got a good article on how to optimize your work with Vim, and David Rayner with his page of Vim tips. Compulsory to learn for Vim beginners!

char chew_up_some_ram[10000000];

void main () {
while (!CRASHED) {

if (first_time_install) {
make_10_gigabyte_swapfile();
do_nothing_loop();
search_and_destroy(FIREFOX | OPENOFFICEORG | ANYTHING_GOOGLE);
hang_system();
}

if (still_not_crashed) {
basically_run_windows_xp();
do_nothing_loop();
}
}

if (!DX10GPU()) {
set_graphics(aero, very_slow);
set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);
}

// printf(”Welcome to Windows 2000?);
// printf(”Welcome to Windows XP”);
printf(”Welcome to Windows Vista”);

while (something) {
sleep(10);
get_user_input();
sleep(10);
act_on_user_input();
sleep(10);
flicker_led_promisingly(hard_disk);
}

creat_general_protection_fault();
}

Good news, KDE team started migration of original KDE applications for Windows platform. Concerning windows.kde.org, users of Windows XP/2000/2003 can easily install famous apps like Konqueror, Kate and others on their machines, via KDE-installer.

If some of the applications don’t work from the beginning, just add KDEDIRS and Path in your Control Panel, as it’s described in the manual.

So far, I found only one minor thing: I couldn’t manage applications via Konqueror, however it needs some googling.

In general, lots of positive feelings for this great move of KDE, because some of the apps in KDE can’t be compared with Windows scanty alternatives.

If you’re using PC, you’re conservative and close-minded average person living on this planet. The quote is a bit stupid, isn’t it?