CakePHP Tip – Creating static page

Sheuli — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:32:21 +0000

There is an easy way of creating a static page in CakePHP. This tip allows also to create non-authenticated pages among applications that needs authentication.

For the purpose of this example, we will create a static page http://www.yourdomain.com/about.

1. Go to /app/config/routes.php, and add this line:

Router::connect(‘/about’, array(‘controller’ => ‘pages’, ‘action’ => ‘display’, ‘about’));

2. Now, you can create an actual page with a content that you want to display on your new static ‘about’ page. To do so, copy the file to:

/app/views/pages/about.ctp

Don’t forget to save this file with an extension /*.ctp.

3. You can now access this page at http://www.yourdomain.com/about

How to detect iPad/iPhone hardware with PHP

Sheuli — Sat, 07 May 2011 13:17:39 +0000

Below a very useful snippet of PHP code that detects whether the person viewing your website is on a iPad or iPhone. Thanks to this solution you can redirect visitors to a different version of your website or just to another page.

if(strstr($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’],’iPhone’) || strstr($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’],’iPad’))
{
…
}

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CakePHP Tip – Creating static page

How to detect iPad/iPhone hardware with PHP