The simpler alternative to running MAMP or XAMPP on Os X is using the built-in PHP, APache and getting a binary of Mysql. Although MAMP and XAMPP are simple ways also.
When I first installed mysql for my mac running Leopard just after it came out (end 2007), it was a bit flakey and casued a […]
*updated Jan 30th 08*
Snook blog post
Jonathan Snook points out another solution to an easy http-auth implementation for Cake’s directories (that are really rewrites).
the gist is that you put a <Location “/name_of_dir/”> in your httpd.conf, which you may well have access to if you are telling it the webroot of Cake is the webroot anyway.
Works like […]
update: More on the XHTML technique popup
I wanted to make a simple popup in my latest Cake app, and so needed to set a blank layout just from looking at the URL, as the page was essentially static that I was going to pop up.
e.g. then my little popup URL caller (hyperlink ) would […]