Monday, February 22nd, 2010
I’ve been coding away all week, that is between my other jobs at home 
In all my ‘wisdom’ and persistence i made a small app with Yii which stores data in an array and serializes it into a db, and a basic CRUD, a proof of concept to see if the framework was capable of doing this and in the fastest way possible.
No problem so far, getting it is simple, but apparently you Yii doesn’t permit everything. So you need a $temp variable to store the model data in, suffice to say that it isn’t really the shortest route to take nor in my opinion the fastest bus alas I have to do with it. This little app of not more then a 60 lines of code took me four days, four damn days to figure out the error, honestly if we have methods to ’save space’ in your coding why not permit them?
I’m not going to bother everybody with my nagging so, I’ll stop here.
For those who want to see the topic on the yii forums.
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
So, I think ti’s time for some updates on the website.
I has been a bit wild the last 3 weeks. School has started yet again and I had a project to finish not to mention that i’m starting to see through the Yii framework structure. I’ve been writing diagrams for different project that I have in my head too and that takes a lot of time. Besides figuring out how I want the database to be and my database system had schifted, alto mysql is the favorite, a friend encouraged that i take a look to postgresql. Yii has given me a hard time to basically because it’s been a bit of a struggle to change coding methodes in function of Yii and then I don’t start talking about the RBAC system it has build-in. It took every neuron to understand everything form begin to end. Models was also something, Yii has two model types and the active records model is something to understand, I was a bit lost at how I would have to write my own AR functions but thanks to the forums I got that figured out too. All in all everything is good at the moment.
I’ll be uploading some pictures of the system I wrote recently so you can get some sneaky peaks at it but unfortunately it won’t be open source system.
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Yii framework (yiiframework.com) is a very fast php5 framework. At first it seems like a jungle in the code, everything is put into motion to make the framework very fast. It’s been really a steep lurning curve, even if you seen oop programming, alas seen it in a totally different way that corresponds to nothing in yii. So you have to adapt to it’s style of coding, writing and thinking.
It’s not a regular MVC framework, yii had a module concept integrated, if you want to use it that it. Tinny mini applications, pull them out and they don’t work but in the larger application they work just fine.
The logic as said is a bit different, in the configuration of the app you got one large file that has everything in it, but it’s messy, so i sacrificed a bit of my speed to put it into separate files, separated db config and routes as this gave a more clear picture of the code and you find your environment variables really fast, if you need to switch dbs
The documentation of yii could be better, some things are left up to your sense, chuncks of code are left out instead of leaving the whole things standing which would be far more handy. Luckily for he who wants to contunie with it there is a good forum with dedicated people answering even the most idiotic questions.
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Begin this week I began to experiment with cakephp but there’s a downside, Cake is something like rails but unfortunately the framework has less good tutorials.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
This is probably one of the easiest authantication plugins for rails. I’m learning it at the moment and it isn’t easy, the biggest obstacle is the tutorials that often are but available for rails 1.x.x.
Railscasts – restful_authentication.
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