CakePHP 1.3.6 debug mode and encoding

I run into a strange bug with CakePHP 1.3.6. When debug mode set to 0 the browser don’t select the correct page encoding although the page header is set correctly. I don’t run into this bug with CakePHP 1.3.2. Any one has this problem?

AIR: IE changes Adobe .air files to .zip files when clicking to download

The solution is in the server settings.

For Apache users add this line in “httpd.conf” :

AddType application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip .air

 

As always, I can developp if requested in the comments.

Flex PHP 5.1.6 and ZendAMF

For those who are stuck with PHP 5.1.6 but still want to use ZendAMF it’s possible. You just have to avoid the new to php 5.2 “datetime” type. The trick is to convert date to timestamp interger to pass them over the wire.

I can develop if requested.

Wamp and SSL

If you are looking for a way to set up SSL on your WAMP development environment, here is the solution:

http://www.webidsupport.com/forums/showthread.php?705-https-SSL-Under-WAMP

In my case setting the VirtualHost this way helped:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:443>

instead of

<VirtualHost *:443>

If you still have errors don’t forget to check the errors and warnings in apache_error.log.
There is a lot of valuable info there.

Adobe Flex width height and scrollbar

Here a little hack:
If you can’t get the scrollbar to show up on a container (Canvas, VBox, HBox) try to set the minHeight or minWidth. (Even with a very small value)

Flex DataGrid header background color

if you try to set the DataGrid header background color for a target column, the solution is there:

http://ntt.cc/2009/02/18/set-background-color-for-headers-of-datagrid.html

Warning:

But it’s not perfect though. it doesn’t work when you use horizontal scroll.

Change DataGrid alternating cell background with an itemRenderer

if you want to Change the DataGrid cell background with an itemRenderer, the solution is there:

http://butterfliesandbugs.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/using-an-itemrenderer-to-change-the-background-of-a-datagrid-cell/

If you want to get an alternating custom color, here a little hack:

g.beginFill(0xCC0033,0.02);

The second beginFill param is the alpha. By setting it low you get the alternating datagrid bg color and your custom item renderer bgcolor to blend, giving an alternating custom color background

It’s a hack but it works

CakePHP and static html pages

So you are a crazy developer who understand everything about MVC etc.
But you work with designers who don’t want to hear about your view-layout-elements structure. All they want is to open static html pages of the site with dreamweaver and synchronize from there.

The solution: for complete static pages don’t use cake’s pages system. Just put mystaticpage.html file in the webroot and make links to it directly. It works just fine.

Designers will just synchronize the webroot and you can focus on the dynamic part.

Now if your top page is static too, you need to create a custom route.

Easy: create cake’s pages view and in the .ctp just use:

include “index.html”

PHP BUG with mb_convert_encoding EUC-JP and UTF-8

This doesn’t work properly:
mb_convert_encoding($japtext, “UTF-8″, “EUC-JP”)

Instead you have to do this:
mb_convert_encoding(mb_convert_encoding($japtext,”sjis-win”,”EUC-JP”),”UTF-8″,”sjis-win”)

Strange but true. If you have any better solution, tell me.

Source:

http://www.asp-edita.jp/doda/one/doda5728_15.html

Flex TextInput focusOut callLater()

If you use an Alert on focusOut from a TextInput that bring you back to the TextInput, use callLater() on a function that throw the Alert. It will stop bring you back to the TextInput