While building a wordpress theme that has multilingual support, I needed to know what the current language was for fixing some static parts of my template.
After searching a bit on the WPML site, I found a code example where you are shown howto create your own language selector menu:
http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/custom-language-switcher/
I then wrote this function to get [...]
WPML, what is the current language?
31 May 2010 2 Comments
Using link_to in rails with :confirm and :method
27 May 2010 Comments Off
Every time i’m going to use the link_to method in rails, I always seem to get a lot of errors.
The documentation states:
link_to(name, options = {}, html_options = nil)
link_to(options = {}, html_options = nil) do
# name
end
URL to the rails docs: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#M001597
And gives a list of options you can [...]
Fixing symlinks in Mac OS 10 + built in Apache
3 May 2010 3 Comments
The other night I was fiddling about with my macbook, trying to setup a “MySQL-Apache-PHP” server on my system. Digging a bit about the system and googling a bit, it seems that the system comes with a built in apache server and php installation.
I thought to myself, why not use the built in server instead of installing a MAMP package?
Anyways, seconds went by and I found the option in the system preferences, turned on “web sharing” and excitedly headed on to localhost. It worked perfectly, now I just needed to set it up as it was on my linux desktop.
The apache’s httpd.conf file is located in the folder: /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
(I used textmate to edit the file.)
What I wanted to do was, since I’m the only user on this laptop, I wanted my Sites folder to have a www “folder”, which was a symlink to a folder in my Documents folder. The symlink would then point to the webapp I was currently coding.