Today I was using one of CakePHP’s helper methods, $text->truncate. It gave me these errors and I can’t say I was pleased about it. It reminded me that sometimes, functions aren’t a piece of cake.
Warning (2): array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array [CORE/cake/libs/view/helpers/text.php, line 184]
Warning (2): extract() [function.extract]: First argument should be an [...]
I recently deployed a CakePHP application to a 1and1 server. I was presented with a wonderful 500 Internal Server Error. That only means one thing: a .htaccess was messed up somewhere.
There were many places that pointed me in the right direction to fix this problem. It was definitely an annoying hitch. Seriously, there’s that [...]
Firebug will scream and shout about Invalid Object Initialization if you mess just a little something up. Firebug does this a lot. It is an unhelpful error because Firebug will direct you to the first line of your object, not where the problem is.
Firebug gave me this, more or less. That wasn’t helpful. (Why did [...]
Our favorite development tool, Eclipse, makes it slightly confusing to read files properly inside of a Java program.
To start with, I make a file as anyone would, just a quick right click in the Project Tree, then New and finally to File as in a blank file.
One would assume that a non-java would exist [...]
I encountered this error today from copying and pasting a code snippet that was from one of our PDF textbooks.
illegal character /160
After making sure that our brackets matched, methods weren’t variables, variables weren’t methods, we didn’t know what was going on. Everything looked good and clean. So we decided to do the unthinkable: we retyped [...]
I was working with cake php recently and I came across these three errors:
Warning (512): Cache not configured properly. Please check Cache::config(); in APP/config/core.php [CORE\cake\libs\configure.php, line 663]
Warning (2): array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array [CORE\cake\libs\configure.php, line 684]
Warning (2): array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array [CORE\cake\libs\configure.php, line 691]
What could’ve caused this? What was [...]
Since I’ve been writing my own tiny php framework in recent weeks, I’ve been exposed to a lot of strange and wild PHP error messages. These error messages are supposed to be the light at the end of the tunnel but rather often they are the precipice right before someone comes over and yells, don’t [...]
My father was pre-ordering the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade today. He needed to know if he should get a copy for my mother’s computer which currently runs Windows XP. She uses it for work primarily and because of that, uses the Cisco VPN client. I have a number of computers running the Windows 7 RC [...]