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.

Brake down the configuration file in multiple files, this will give you some speed disadvantage and some will  saying that I’m raping Yii framework purpose for speed but at least to me it seems more clear

This is the protected.config/main.php

dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'..',
'name'=>'WEBSITENAME',
'modules'=>array(
'users'=>array(
//sub modules in the module users
'modules'=>array(
'messaging',
'profile',
'dashboard',
)
),
'about',
'forums',
),
// preloading 'log' component active loading
'preload'=>array('log'),

// autoloading model and component classes lazy loading
// I make the difference between CformModel and CActiveRecord
'import'=>array(
'application.models.*',
'application.models.forms.*',
'application.models.database.*',
),

// application components
'components'=>array(
// enable cookie-based authentication
'user'=>array('allowAutoLogin'=>true),

// data relinquished to database.php
// for easy access and usability as also for the future
// installation procedure, it's less to write to a file
'db'=>include(dirname(__FILE__).'/database.php'),

// for a better overview we exculded url routes to a seperate file
'urlManager'=>include(dirname(__FILE__).'/routes.php'),

//authentication component needs data from db for CdbConnection
'authManager'=>array(
'class'=>'CDbAuthManager',
'connectionID'=>'db',
'defaultRoles'=>array('authenticated', 'guest'),
),

//security measures
'request'=>array(
'enableCsrfValidation'=>true,
'enableCookieValidation'=>true,
),
),

// application-level parameters that can be accessed
// using Yii::app()->params['paramName']
// uncomment the following if you want static params in the application
//'params'=>array(include(dirname(__FILE__).'/params.php'))
);

database.php

'CDbConnection',
'connectionString'=>'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=mysql',
//'connectionString'=>'pgsql:host=localhost;port=5432;dbname=mysql',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => '',
);
?>

routes.php

'path', // path or get
'urlSuffix' => '', //.html .whateverextentionyouwant
'showScriptName' => true,
'rules'=>array(
'users/recovery/perimeterSecurity/'=>'users/recovery/perimeterSecurity',
),
);
?>

param.php

//nothing in it at the moment

redirect()

Does a “header redirect” to the local URI specified. Just like other functions in this helper, this one is designed to redirect to a local URL within your site. You will not specify the full site URL, but rather simply the URI segments to the controller you want to direct to. The function will build the URL based on your config file values.

The optional second parameter allows you to choose between the “location” method (default) or the “refresh” method. Location is faster, but on Windows servers it can sometimes be a problem. The optional third parameter allows you to send a specific HTTP Response Code – this could be used for example to create 301 redirects for search engine purposes. The default Response Code is 302. The third parameter is only available with ‘location’ redirects, and not ‘refresh’. Examples:

if ($logged_in == FALSE)
{
redirect('/login/form/', 'refresh');
}

// with 301 redirect
redirect('/article/13', 'location', 301);

This was the excerpt from the codeigniter userguide but what they don’t really tell is the essential:

redirect(‘controller/function/param’, ‘refresh’);

Why do it?

Your application becomes easier to update to a newer version, most of the time, when creating a newer version you will strip – change – add some variables for configurations, with a database it’s easier and you (or the admin) can change things on the fly.

How?

One or more tables like this:


Mysql table:
+------------------+
| config |
+------------------+
| id |
| name |
| value |
+------------------+


If you want you can add an selection column to get only the ones needed for that function but this is the best way when being in a development environment I think

A) They make things complicated

B) Subject you to some nasty code stuff and rules

C) Because templating and Frameworks can be water and fire.

Codeigniter on the opposite has some advantage on it side for the templating stuff. This is really a short explanation for a common problem in other framework.

What to do if you want a nice folder structure or have different template styles, remember this is just a basic thing which happen to work in CI 1.7.


function index(){
$this->load->view('Themename/news/index);
}

Just add some slashes an it works so normally it should work if you would make an adaptation for themes too with a variable in it.

The next thing was kind of hard to find on the web so let me share it. It’s for when you develop with CI and your not working in the root directory of your server.


DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

Railscasts – restful_authentication.

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To the website

Easy, crawlers read – scan text and don’t have eyes so they cannot see the image and threat it are some sort of whitespace unless you use your alt tag and also if the image isn’t available at the time a regular user still knows what what the image is about.

Also everything that we may do can be exploited for bad use and so ver the years techniques have been refined to abuse this fact and webmasters have ’stuffed’ their ‘alt tags’ with everything they could think of – Google has, however,  found ways to combat this and treats such strategies as spamming their bots – Sill it’s legal but be careful don’t go of spamming, one or two well placed words are more then enough.

Basicaly all those things are logic but I have to start somewhere.
You may:

• Create a website which contains meta tags, text (useful or not), pics, and keywords that help improve your ranking in the index of the engines.
• Use keywords that relate to the subject which your site treats.
• If you do links, try to have links related to your site.
• Build traffic by ad campaigns, link exchange, advertising in other media if really needed (but you can do without that and just use forums and others to promote your site
• Submit  search engines manually, rather than waiting for them to pick up your site, you can find different and free services to mass-submit your site to search engines.
• Use the tools engines five you like google (sitemaps(free), adsense).

You may not:

• Trick crawlers by embedding hidden content, tags, keywords in your web site. It will get you banned from the index.
• Artificially generate links to your site from sites that don’t relate to yours and also doorway pages, pages created to trap the crawler and redirecting him to you site once again.s. A good general rule of thumb is that you should submit your.
• Don’t submit your site to often to the index manually 4 times a year is more then enough for the search engine to get hold of your site. Not directly one after an other.
• Don’t resubmit your site just because you think that it’s the best in it’s category or something like that. If you open a website on flowers, don’t think it will be the first on the search page when you type flowers because well their are basically millions of sites that treat or contain the word ‘flower’. (and now mine does to btw.)