This is a common issue that is related to bad installation of our favorite PHP package manager: Composer. Let’s fix it: Open your terminal and run following comand in order to get the latest version of Composer: curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php I recommend you to move the composer.phar file to a global “bin” directory,…
The problem Imagine we have a custom form to search for purchases done between two dates; so we have a simple action in a controller that takes the start and end date and create a set of conditions for the paginate() method, but… for some reason once we click on next page we are loosing…
The issue Today I was trying to consume an external video API for streaming a set of videos; so I got the code for the PHP source, create all my configuration but when I tried to get the actual data from the external server via cURL; I was obtaining nothing; so, in order to get the…
The problem After downloading a Drupal project I am working on, and importing its database I got this kind of message related with a PDO Exception: Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception. PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: SELECT s.lid, t.translation, s.version FROM {locales_source} s LEFT JOIN {locales_target} t ON s.lid = t.lid…
Drupal is becoming in one of the most used Content Management Systems (CMS) all over the world, because it is a really robust and secure platform for creating contents and publishing to the web. So, we decided to start teaching this kind of courses in our new e-learning platform: http://webtraining.mx/. These videos were created by Manuel…
Why should I use a CMS? When you start to create websites for information spreading or marketing purposes, one of the easiest and -probably- the best way to do it, is by using a Content Management System (CMS). Why? Well, let me tell you some points about it: SEO Friendly URLs Modular and extensible Easy user…
If you are trying to run the CakePHP console from your command line, probably you are obtaining a warning related with the system’s timezone, that is a normal behavior if your web server doesn’t have a timezone configured correctly. Let’s see an example about this and how to solve it. Problem Warning: strtotime(): It is…
Last week, I started to learn how to Lavarel 4 works in order to compare it with other frameworks that I know like: CakePHP and CodeIgniter. First thing that I loved about Laravel is that it works with PHP Composer, that is a great point for Laravel. But well, after running my first installation of…
Today, I spent some time helping a partner of mine trying to figure out how to enable and use the CakePHP console in Mac OS + XAMPP (Mac OS version of course), so, after searching on the internet what was going on, I realized there was a problem with the unix_socket for MySQL because Mac…
When you have a project created on Joomla CMS, you will need to protect your directories and files in order to avoid a possible attack or loosing information. During my time as a web developer and as a server admin in Government I learnt about what’s is a good configuration for setting permissions, for this…
