http://mkhairul.com Musings of a web ninja Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:05:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I missed the deadline for this month's cloud. I was too deep inside some code for a new application, the Master Plan, that I forgot all about the cloud. http://mkhairul.com/2008/11/27/novembers-cloud/ Just another stuff from work. There's huge list to select people to be put into groups in the LMS. I added a javascript function for the user to type in a name and it will search and select a user in the list box. I use Selector/contains for this but the ... http://mkhairul.com/2008/11/26/making-jquery-selectorcontains-case-insensitive/ I think the ellislab team is swamped with bug reports and stuffs. But I'm sure the next release will solve this problem. I found this solution at the forum, CI 1.7 Forge Problems. Basically what you need to do is find DB_driver.php inside the database folder. Go to function _protect_identifiers ... http://mkhairul.com/2008/11/20/codeigniter-17-dbforge-error-array-to-string-conversion-error/ There is a new assignment. I am being assigned to create a system for the Master Plan! Woah! Sounds like a notorious scheme by the Masters of Evil. But alas it is not. It is a collection of forms that creates a timeline for specific types of stuffs. Its a form ... http://mkhairul.com/2008/11/19/master-plan/ I use this all the time. Its simple, clean and gracefully degrades. Even though its simple some people might miss it. So I post it here. $('.delete').click(function(){ if(!confirm('Are you sure you want to delete?')) { return false; ... http://mkhairul.com/2008/11/15/adding-confirm-dialogue-box-for-delete-links-with-jquery/ Here's a code snippet(in CodeIgniter) for creating a submit function inside a controller. I use this all the time. $rules[''] = ''; $fields[''] = ''; $this->load->library('validation'); $this->validation->set_rules($rules); $this->validation->set_fields($fields); if($this->validation->run() === FALSE) { $this-> } else { $timestamp = strtotime('now'); $data = array( '' => '' ); $this->load->model('', ''); $this->session->set_flashdata('misc_success', ''); redirect(); } I intentionally left some stuffs inside there, which is supposed to be filled anyway. This ... http://mkhairul.com/2008/11/13/form-snippets-for-codeigniter-in-komodo-edit/ So, I debugged an error for a good friend recently. Only certain kind of item would be displayed, everything else was not found in the search. The first thing I suspect is the SQL Query. I printed out the SQL Query and tried to debug it. The first thing I did ... http://mkhairul.com/2008/11/12/debugging-sql-query/ Right now I can't think of anything. There's too much stuff in my mind and my train of thought just wanders aimlessly to one subject to the other and my attention span is the size of a gnat. Between that and my frustration from lack of communication within the team, it ... http://mkhairul.com/2008/11/11/disappointing-and-frustrating/ I thought of this process after a meeting with our Counselor and Solution Architect. The discussion was brief, the counselor discusses some stuffs up-front with the solution architect, and then the SA called me up and explained it to me, since I also think the feature is suppose to be ... http://mkhairul.com/2008/11/06/adding-a-new-feature-to-a-project/ I bought fallout 3 using steam (digital distribution service from Valve), the first problem that I had was updating steam. I downloaded steam through their site and installed it normally. When I run steam, it updates something and then it can't find a DLL (steam.dll). Searched through the forum on ... http://mkhairul.com/2008/11/04/steam-problem/