Jan 26, 2009 Posted by Kjell

Last.FM Datasource v0.3 – Ready for a testdrive

I just finished my work on the datasource. Well.. finished as in: the part of being able to auth and do stuff works now. So it is good for a spin. I also stripped most of my doc comments and compiled a small wiki page that should help you getting it up and running. I also deployed a small demo app and finished it today (as far as a demo app should go). You can see it in action here. The whole thing is just... read more

Jan 25, 2009 Posted by Kjell

Fancy URLs with Inflector::slug

Motivated by my recent tweet i thought i share my method of replacing the old SluggableBehavior with core functions. Sometimes we have more than one model that uses slugs. For example: Tags, Posts, Categories. That’s why i add the following to AppModel which allows me to call it on any model. function slugify($text) { return low(Inflector::slug($text, '-')); } But because i am lazy i just use one of... read more