CustomScripts Blog

Why I switched from CakePHP to Symfony2

March 30, 2012 by Pierre du Plessis 4 Comments

I know there are tons of posts on blogs stating the difference between PHP frameworks. With this post I want to share my personal experience with two great frameworks, CakePHP and Symfony2, and why I made the switch. I’ve been working with CakePHP for over 2 years. In my current position I was forced to … [Read more…]

Detect mobile devices with the WURFL API

December 7, 2009 by Pierre du Plessis 1 Comment

This component uses the WURFL API to detect any mobile or wireless device, and sets custom paths for your views and css, so you can easily create a mobile version of your website.

Getting correct url for cakePHP link

December 2, 2009 by Pierre du Plessis 2 Comments

Many cakephp newbies might not know how to correctly generate a url for their app, for maybe a link or a redirect etc, especially if your cake app is in a subdirectory.