DuncanBrown

Something I found out recently when I updated the cakePHP core files, when accessing my 1and1 hosting using ssh I kept getting errors when using the cakePHP console. The problem was caused by the fact that by default 1and1 uses PHP 4 for the command line. This cannot be altered using .htaccess, however after a little googleing I found that using php5 on the command line does as you would expect. So to make your cakePHP console work using PHP 5, all that is needed is a little editing of one file. CORE/console/cake

Change this:

exec php -q ${LIB}cake.php -working "${APP}" "$@"

To this:

exec php5 -q ${LIB}cake.php -working "${APP}" "$@"

All console actions will then be run using PHP 5.

Recently I came across a problem, where I wanted to show a select box for zones in an address (counties or states etc.). I have a list of zones in my database and to put them all in one box would have been unusable as the list is in excess of 2000 zones. My solution to this was only show the zones related to the country selected in another select box. When the user changes the country the zones are updated. In this tutorial I will explain how I achieved this using cakePHP (1.3) and the YUI Library (3.1.1).