Walker

I have completed wlk_defensio, a plugin utilizing the Defensio spam-fighting service. I started developing this thing awhile ago but got side-tracked with other responsibilities. While I wasn’t paying attention, the Defensio guys added OpenID logins to the accounts on their service. I love OpenID and so this only added to the pleasure I have found with their quality service.

Josh needed to output a cakePHP radio button set without the radio button’s around it. We looked at the API, the docs, etc. We just could not figure it out ( 'fieldset'=>false ? or maybe 'fieldset'=>null ?). Nope.

So Josh went off looking and found out you just set 'legend'=>false in the input option’s array:

echo $form->input('user_need', array('option'=>$radios, 'legend'=>false));

…yes, a user can only have one need at a time….muwahaha

Also, you can also select which radio button is “active” on page load using “checked”=>[the value].

We were in the process of updating an older application to work with AMFPHP and cake1.2. We were getting some fairly serious errors on the AMFPHP connection.

We found that one part of the fix was to comment out line 177 in cake_gateway.php and add in a require_once of your app_controller.php file. (This assumes you have an application directory-level app_controller.php file.)

//loadController(null);
require_once('app_controller.php');

We were unable to get App::import(), the new method of loading items in cakePHP 1.2, to work in a similar manner as the loadController() method.

Here’s a new plugin called wlk_helpful. I just finished the installation portion of the plugin this evening (auto-creation of the database tables).

This is a Textpattern article rating plugin that allows users to give a thumbs up or down (yes/no, plus/minus) to an article. There is also a function that you can then use to then display a list of the most popular (positive rating) or least popular (negative rating) articles.

You can download it here. There’s also a javascript file you’ll need to make it work that can be downloaded here

Letterform had a holiday craft fair. Broadstreet Designs (Sara Broadstreet) was there selling jewelry. Emily Alt was selling the most amazing salty-sweet brownies that went great with the coffee and hot cider served by Julie and Andy of Letterform. I Love Pink Dots (Tiffany Paige) was selling her stuffed cates and screen-printed kitchen towels. Compute Computer (Michelle Eatough) was selling fun screen-printed bags, jackets, hoodies, and Ts. Some of the bags and hoodies reminded me of Ratatat.

And, of course, Julie Morelli of Letterform was selling her “Nourishing Notes”, And a bunch of screen-printed tea towels and aprons.

Click through for the little video I made of it.