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Recently I have made a RBAC(Role Based Access Control) System using CakePHP, and it is an easy plug-in which you can use to plug into your existing project or you can use to start a brand new project from.

I have put it up at CodeCanyon ( http://codecanyon.net/item/base-role-based-access-controlcakephp-plugin/89182 ). If you want to support me, please purchase it at CodeCanyon.

Happy Baking!

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If you are a LAMP developers, you may have encountered this error before.

I have encountered these many times, so I decided to put this into my blog, in case I struggle with finding the bug later.

This error happens to when I use a variable  in my View without initializing it in my Controller.

I believe there are other causes to this error, if you have met any situations like this, do let me know, so I could put it up.

Happy Baking!

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Recently I have done a personal project which is to build and run a web application.

Basically The web application is a online-shop portal , its live url is www.isfun2shop.com.

Right now it is running on Chinese version only.

It’s idea is to allow online-shop owners open a online shop and sell its products .As it is a web portal , it has an admin panel for each registered member to manage their online-shop.

Technology used here are of cause Cakephp + Jquery , as they are what I am focusing these days.

If you are Chinese reader, do give a try and feedbacks are always welcome.

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Latest version 2.0  of  Xmenu is finally out.

Check it out at    http://www.the-di-lab.com/?p=87

Fix:

1.Working in IE browser now

Add On:

1.Added “effect”  option to the xmenu, now its expanding animation is customizable.

I would like to thank Martin and Venu for their valuable advices and bug report

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When I was doing one of my projects , I needed a javascript function to read from a file and print it line by line.

However, it is not possible in Javascript to read from local file system.

Thus, I made a work around, which is to read from a file by PHP, and then append a line break symbol at the end of each line.

And finally, I have this javascript “class” to read from “file” line by line.

It works similar to BufferedReader in Java.

Here is the function:

String.prototype.trim = function () {
return this.replace(/^\s*/, "").replace(/\s*$/, "");
}

//line breaker %lb%
function FileReader(file) {
var lineBreaker ="%lb%";
this.fileString = file.trim();

var cursor = 0;
var recorder = new Array();

//public methods
this.close = function () {
cursor = 0;
recorder = null;
fileString ="";
}

this.readLine = function () {
var value = null;

if(cursor == 0 ){
process();
}

if(cursor<recorder.length) {
value = getLine();
cursor++;
}
alert(value);
return value;
}

//private methods
var process = function () {
recorder = fileString.split(lineBreaker);
}

var getLine = function() {
return recorder[cursor];
}

}

To use this “class”, firstly you can pass a file which is a String (formatted by backend language with a defined line break):

var fileObj = FileReader(file);

And when you call fileObj.readLine() , it will return a line of content.

Please notice that , you have to append a line break symbol(eg. %lb% ), you can also change the line break symbol ,but make

sure you change it in Javascript class.

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In order to add I18n and l10n into Jqcms, I have been searching internet to implement this feature.

And this is my final solution of I18n and l10n in cakephp .

Please note my current cakephp version is 1.2.1 .

1.Create your locale file.
The file path is app/locale/eng/LC_MESSAGES/default.po.
You could create your customized locale file such as  app/locale/fre/LC_MESSAGES/default.po.
app/locale/rus/LC_MESSAGES/default.po.

whereas, default.po is the actually locale file which contains the content.
It is recommanded to use po edit to edit this locale file due to its encoding.
However, when I used notepad to edit it, it works still fine.
The content of the file looks like this:

</code></code></code>

msgid   "add"
msgstr "Add Content"

<code>

</code>
$this->Session->write('Config.language','en');
<code>

</code>
Configure::write('Config.language','rus');
<code>

</code>
__("add")
<code>