It seems like photo sharing and social network applications are the in thing right now. Let’s take advantage of this. Today I will provide a simple class that will allow you to post photos to a user’s Photobucket account in minutes.
Step 1: Visit http://photobucket.com/developer/register to register for an API key
Follow the steps to create a new application on Photobucket. When you have finished, Photobucket will send you an email with your API and Secret key. Keep this email for later use.
The Facebook Application API is quite extensive and allows you to get and set many different aspects of a user’s Facebook information.
Today, we are going to discuss using the Facebook API to create an album, if it doesn’t already exist, and add a photo to that album. (more…)
It feels like it has been a lifetime since my last blog! I must apologize for the long delay, but between finding the time and finding a good topic to blog about, it’s being difficult.
In today’s article, it’s been a while since I’ve needed to use either the setTimeout or setInterval functions and it seems many people are not familiar with the setInterval function.
Let’s start by describing the two. (more…)
If you haven’t noticed already, at times CakePHP can be a little slow loading! The reason for this is quite simple. Rapid Application Development. To allow for RAD, sometimes we must give up something, in this scenario it’s a bit of speed when loading. Don’t worry, CakePHP offers some excellent utilities to help with this.
The one I will focus on today is caching our CakePHP query results. The key to this is, we are caching the results, not the queries themselves. If you know databases well, you may be thinking, “why do I want to cache queries, doesn’t my database server do this already?” The answer to the question is, yes it does. However, CakePHP still needs to call the database query and parse your results. What I’m proposing, will avoid both of those steps and allow you to just retrieve the results.
This process not only avoids excess load on the database, it also reduces PHP’s processing time that CakePHP has to do to provide you with such useful arrays. (more…)
My pet peeve list seems to grow on a regular basis. One of them is poorly optimized code. Not only is the code I’m going to discuss poorly optimized, it’s from the documentation of CakePHP!
If you search for creating custom pagination in CakePHP, you will find quite a few results, potentially this one. The one that I would assume the best would be the one from CakePHP itself, but it’s not and let me show you why. (more…)