Mental Ramblings Site Gets a Makeover

As an avid user and supporter of CakePHP, I had felt compelled for some time to switch the site from Wordpress to a custom CakePHP Blog setup. We'll look at the advantages and disadvantages of building your own custom blog.

Advantages:

  1. Leaner Code
  2. More Customized Features
  3. Less Mess
  4. Faster Page Loads

Disadvantages:

  1. Longer to setup a site.
  2. Less features from the start.
  3. ACL/AUTH can be intimidating
Created: Sat, Jan 26th 2008, 18:29 Modified: Sat, Jan 16th 2010, 01:23

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On Sat, Jan 16th 2010, 01:23

freedwew Said:

So, onto the good stuff. A couple of things to be aware of when setting this up. I do not use cakephp in my projects. I have it linked outside of each project, testking ccie so that I can use one central cake core for all of my projects. As such, you will need to adjust the location of your cake folder in webroot/index.php. Also, be sure to setup your own DB details in ccip exams the config/ folder. Lastly, be sure to keep your transactions to a respectable amount. These tests could take a while, and depending on your machine config might exceed the default 30 seconds of execution time for a script. As such, I have adjusted my personal php.ini file to allow for a maximum exec time ccna testking of 300 seconds, and a max of 1024MB for transactions. The memory may not be so much of an issue, as you will be working with small transactions mostly, but it is a consideration. It's because of these 2 factors that this should not be used in a production environment.
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