Symbiotica Web Development » PHP http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk Bespoke Web Development, Content Manangement Systems and E-Commerce Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:22:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 We’re now using with PHP FastCGI http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2010/07/were-now-using-with-php-fastcgi/ http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2010/07/were-now-using-with-php-fastcgi/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:11:16 +0000 admin http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/?p=48 We’ve just started using PHP FastCGI to power some of our websites like our free uk link directory, www.blinks.org.uk to make sure that everything is always running nice and quickly.

So far everything is going perfectly.

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The Helper is designed to work with data arrays produced from either any $model->find(‘threaded’) or from the ‘Tree’ behaviour:

It’s fairly common to want to store hierarchical data in a database table. Examples of such data might be categories with unlimited subcategories, data related to a multilevel menu system [...] is a powerful behaviour which allows you to use the benefits of MPTT logic

[http://book.cakephp.org/view/91/Tree]

Whilst this may not be useful to a lot of people as it has been designed for use specifically within the constrains of our system, it might be useful for you.

View CakePHP Menu Helper

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As the name might suggest this website is aimed at people interested in Sci Fi and Fantasy Books. The site is based around making individual authors easy to locate and also using themed lists of suggested books.

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Alternate History Books

The website is still under very active development so look out for the following features coming soon:

  • Search
  • Reviews / Comments
  • Shopping Cart
  • Blog / News Section

www.science-fictions.co.uk

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Symbiotica Media Development Ltd

Bespoke website & application development based in Devon, England.

  • E-commerce
  • Content Management Systems
  • CRM Systems

Standards based, accessible LAMP based web development using a variety of tools including PHP, MySQL, CakePHP, jQuery, Python and Django.

Our main website is currently under development and will hopefully be here soon. It is a bit of a depature from the usual PHP based system and is being constructed with Django a Python web development framework. Of course depending on how busy we are it might take a bit longer than we imagine.

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