The Facebook user could not be retrieved from the session.

You just need to change your localhost URL on your own hosts file that Facebook can give you cookie permission of which is blocked by default for localhost development.
To do that, just add a new line below to your hosts file;
127.0.0.1 localhost.local
And do not forget to change your application settings at developer.facebook.com to allow your new application URL http://localhost.local/your_app/.

Thank you for reading.

Enuygun.com

The end of the week showed up for me and I feel like writing about my firs week at Enuygun.Com. Firstly, I haven’t learn much about the company but I think its a kind of new but successful company. I’m a senior software developer here and we’re going to build applications, services, mobile applications and an affiliate system for all we can share the growth. We are using Symfony2 as PHP framework of which I had no idea at the beginning. For the first 2 days it was like what a horrible structure that everything is bundled and you need to create new bundle to use the other bundle. At least, that’s what I think it was. After a huge concentration on research and watching some tutorials about Symfony, I now can say that, it might be the best framework to be used to develop easily implemented bundles that could be used by many applications. It’s not that none of the other frameworks don’t have the ability but it is for me now that when I think about bundled or plug in based system development is Symfony.

All in all, although I did not have any clue about the technology that they have been using till now, I think I made a grate performance to figure out what is what, why it is used and how I can use things while I have my developer hat put-on. So, the thing is, Enuygun.com is totally new for me and I feel like I’m going to be successful as I used to be on the previous companies. But I should note that, getting a job far away from your home is not the best choice. But it was a quick shoot. I hope I made a good decision.

Thank you for reading.

  header('Content-type: text/css');
  ob_start("compress");
  function compress($buffer) {
    /* remove comments */
    $buffer = preg_replace('!/\*[^*]*\*+([^/][^*]*\*+)*/!', '', $buffer);
    /* remove tabs, spaces, newlines, etc. */
    $buffer = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r", "\n", "\t", '  ', '    ', '    '), '', $buffer);
    return $buffer;
  }

  /* your css files */
  include('master.css');
  include('typography.css');
  include('grid.css');
  include('print.css');
  include('handheld.css');

  ob_end_flush();

LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

And if you have access to the httpd.conf then you can add following lines to it.

<Location />
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/x-js text/css
</Location>

If not; you should specify the initialization line into your htaccess file.

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/plain text/javascript text/xml application/xhtml+xml application/x-httpd-php
</IfModule>

You might have problems to compress javascript files which has different mime types. Then, you can use followig configuration.

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

That will do. Now, I will introduce YUI Compressor. YUI Compressor is one of Yahoo developer team product that you can download from here. If you have dowloaded the YUI Compressor built from the site that I shared above, what you should do to compress your file is:

java -jar yuicompressor-x.y.z.jar myfile.js -o myfile-min.js --charset utf-8

Where, x, y and z are the version number of the YUI Compressor download. Also you can find more information about YUI Compressor at http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/#work

Thank you for reading, I hope this will help some of you guys.

Unfortunately it was not a complete solution that you can implement easily but it gave me a good approach to help the model to request nested queries to make Translate Behaviour work.

I need to warn you that this solution is not a really good one but until CakePHP team fix this issue on one of the future releases of CakePHP this would help you a lot.

Here is the code:

class AppModel extends Model {

    var $_findMethods = array('all' => true, 'first' => true, 'count' => true,
		'neighbors' => true, 'list' => true, 'threaded' => true, 'translated' => true);

    function _findTranslated($state, $query, $results = array()) {
        if ($state == 'before') {
            return array_merge($query, array(
                //'fields' => array('id', 'name'),
                //'recursive' => -1
            ));
        } elseif ($state == 'after') {
            if (empty($results)) {
                return $results;
            }

            // get the model's belongs to relation model names
            $belongsTo = Set::extract($this->belongsTo, '/@*');

            if(!empty($belongsTo) && isset($belongsTo[0]) && is_array($belongsTo[0]))
                $belongsTo = $belongsTo[0];

            if(!empty($belongsTo))
                foreach($results as &$result)
                {
                    foreach($belongsTo as $modelName)
                    {
                        if(isset($result[$modelName]) &&
                            isset($result[$modelName]['id']) &&
                            !empty($result[$modelName]['id']))
                        {

                            $data = $this->$modelName->find('first', array(
                                'conditions' => array(
                                    $modelName.'.id' => $result[$modelName]['id']
                                ),
                                'recursive' => -1
                            ));

                            if(!empty($data))
                                $result[$modelName] = $data[$modelName];
                        }
                    }
                }

            return $results;
        }
    }
}

What you need to do is just implement the _findTranslated method on your model or on AppModel for general usage with the $_findMethods private variable and instead of using regular find methods for example:

$this->Post->find('all');

You should use:

$this->Post->find('translated');

And the result will look as the same above but with translated inner relations.

Not: I have not implement all types of the relations yet but if you find hard to add such relations let me know, I’ll do my best.

I hope this could help you. Please leave me some responses to make sure is helpful.

Thank you for reading this article.

Basics

Ext JS templates have their own parsing algorithms that needs to be compiled before used and here is a quick start to it.

Defining Variables

If you would like to add variables on the template you need to surround the variable name with curly parentheses (‘{‘ and ‘}’ ).

Example:

{variable_name}

Using Variables in Texts

To add variables into the predefined texts you can just add the variable with curly parentheses where you want to put the variable.

Example:

This page has {page_picture_count} pictures.

Using HTML Tags on Templates

It is the same way you add html tags on your Ex JS template as adding predefined text.

Example:

<a id="{id}" href="{url}">{text}</a>

Conditions

You can set conditions to perform on template rendering to the parameter as well. How you do this is pretty simple.

Form:

<tpl if="your condition">{field}</tpl>

Example 1 (If condition):

<tpl if="{field}=='Good Example'">{field}</tpl>

With this template what ever else the field variable is will not be evaluated except if it is equal to ‘Good Example’ string.

Loops

You can use loops when you need to output a list of variables.

Example:

<tpl for="{parent}">{child}, </tpl>

With this template for each child in parent will be separated with columns.

Example 2 (If and Else If condition):

<tpl if="{field}=='Good Example'">{field}</tpl>
<tpl if="{field}=='Else Example'">{field}</tpl>

With this template what ever else the field variable is will not be evaluated except if it is equal to ‘Good Example’ or ‘Else Example’ string.

Using Predefined Functions on Templates

Ext JS has internal Template functions that are useful for your templates.

Suppose we want to output a variable named content but we are afraid that it may take too much space. A useful feature would be able to truncate this content to 50 characters and show the user a link to view all of the content. We can use the formatting function “ellipsis” to truncate the content to only 50 characters. This function will also append “…” to indicate to our users that there is actually more content but it has been truncated.

Example:

<div>{content:ellipsis(50)}<br/><a href="{moreLink}">Read More</a></div>

Here is a list of the formatting functions which you can use with Templates:

ellipsis(length): Abbreviate your variable to a specified length and append “…”. Useful for when you want to only show the first x characters and then provide a more detailed view.

undef: If the variable is undefined show “” instead of “undefined”

htmlEncode: If the variable contains ampersands, less than, greater than symbols or quotes HTML escape them.

trim: If the variable contains extra rwhite space, trim it.

substr(start, length): Substring the variable

lowercase: Transform the variable to all lowercase.

uppercase: Transform the variable to all uppercase.

capitalize: Capitalize the first letter of the variable, the remaining characters will be transformed to lowercase.

usMoney: Format in US Dollars. ie: $10.97

date[(format)]: Transform the variable to a date format, if the format argument is omitted uses the mask ‘m/d/Y’

stripTags: Strips the variable of all html tags.

You can also create your own custom formatting functions by adding a new method to your template instance and calling it by prepending this. to your format function like this “{VARIABLE:this.<FORMATFUNCTION>}”

Here is a sample which adds a new function called yesNoFormat to an instance of a template. yesNoFormat is similar to a ColdFusion function which converts ‘truthy’ values to the word “Yes” and ‘falsey’ values to the word “No”.

var testCustomTpl = new Ext.Template(
    '<div>User: {username} IsRevoked: {revoked:this.yesNoFormat}</div>'
);
testCustomTpl.yesNoFormat = function(value) {
	return value ? 'Yes' : 'No';
};
testCustomTpl.append(document.body, {username: 'aconran', revoked: 1});

Note: This post will continue when I found something else and developing some examples on Ext JS Templates.

select
 `adproperties`.*, `properties`.*
 FROM `adproperties`
 left join (select
 *
 FROM `advertisementproperties`
  WHERE ((`advertisementproperties`.`advertisement_id` = '113'))) `properties` on (`properties`.`adproperty_id` = (`adproperties`.`id`))
  WHERE ((`adcategory_id` = (select
 `advertisements`.`adcategory_id` as adcategory
 FROM `advertisements`
  WHERE (((`advertisements`.`id` = '113') and (`advertisements`.`account_id` = '1'))))))

This worked for me perfectly. Even I add some more conditions on it. Later I’ll have time to fix the paranthesis problem but for the beginning, I’ll keep using this code instead of the old one.
I must finaly point that, I have not tried it with other kind of configuration array but after I finish the whole it will be the perfect SQL Manager Class written in PHP ever.

SELECT
`adproperties`.*,
`properties`.*
FROM `adproperties`
LEFT JOIN (SELECT *
                FROM
                `advertisementproperties`
                WHERE `advertisementproperties`.`advertisement_id` = 110) `properties`
ON `properties`.`adproperty_id` = `adproperties`.`id`
WHERE
`adcategory_id` = (SELECT
                           `advertisements`.`adcategory_id` as `adcategory`
                           FROM `advertisements`
                           WHERE `advertisements`.`id` = 110)

It is something right? So, what I need to do is adding inner queries up on my old manager even on the Joining phrases and Where clauses. It is not easy to build a complete solution for SQL because you would always think on the current problem to be fixed not the whole. Even though, I could have been able to build a generalization to create search queries on the relational queries of which is also used in many projects of mine.

Now what I can do with it is like:

SELECT
`advertisementproperties`.`id`,
`advertisementproperties`.`advertisement_id`,
`advertisementproperties`.`value`,
`adproperties_rel`.`options`,
`adproperties_rel`.`type`,
`adproperties_rel`.`adcategory_id`,
`adproperties_rel`.`id` as `adproperty_id`,
`adproperties_rel`.`name`
FROM `advertisementproperties`
RIGHT JOIN `adproperties` `adproperties_rel`
ON `adproperties_rel`.`id` = `advertisementproperties`.`adproperty_id`
WHERE (
(`adproperties_rel`.`account_id` = '1') or ISNULL
(`adproperties_rel`.`account_id`)) and (
(`advertisement_id` = 113) or ISNULL
(`advertisement_id`)) and
(`adproperties_rel`.`adcategory_id` = '22')

This code above is not able to do what I needed and it is not a good SQL query either. What I really need to do is to create better querying solution for it.

I started from the end to internal core of the code and firstly defined the object that I would like it to create my query:

$sqlMgr = new SQLManager(array(
    "method" => "select",
    "selections" => array("adproperties"  => "*", "properties"  => "*"),
    "tableName" => "adproperties",
    "relations" => array(
        "properties" => array(
            "join" => "left",
            "tableName" => array(
                "query" => true,
                "method" => "select",
                "tableName" => "advertisementproperties",
                "conditions" => array("advertisementproperties" => "advertisement_id", "=" => 113)
            ),
            "conditions" => array("properties" => "adproperty_id", "=" => array("adproperties" => "id"))
        )
    ),
    "conditions" => array(
        "adcategory_id",
        "=" => array(
            "query" => true,
            "method" => "select",
            "tableName" => "advertisements",
            "selections" => array("advertisements" => "adcategory_id"),
            "fieldAliases" => array(
                array(
                    "table" => "advertisements",
                    "name" => "adcategory_id",
                    "alias" => "adcategory"
                )
            ),
            "conditions" => array(array("advertisements" => "id", "=" => 113), "and" => array("advertisements" => "account_id", "=" => 1))
        )
    )
));

This code should definitely do what I would like to do with my SQL Manager Class. Now is the time to get this configuration in to action.
With my old SQL Helper I’m no where close

SELECT `*`.*, `*`.*, `l_rel`.`l` as `l`, `adproperties`.`_rel`
 FROM `adproperties`
 L JOIN `l` `l_rel` ON `l_rel`.`l` = `adproperties`.`l`
  JOIN `` `_rel` ON `_rel`.`` = `adproperties`.``
 WHERE (
(`advertisements`.`adcategory_id`) and
(`_rel`.`Array`)) and ()

Some of the generated query is right how it supposed to be. I’ll start from the selections.