Yet another blog about PHP, HTML and CSS

Just in case you’re not familiar with the basics, I suggest you read James Fairhurst’s and teknoid’s posts first. Good stuff but doesn’t work for Auth messages because you can’t specify parameters when Auth calls $this->Session->setFlash().

So I decided to ignore the phase where you set the flash message and hack the phase where the message is being printed. I created a custom helper and extended/overrode SessionHelper.

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I’ve been wrestling my mind around a rather simple request today. I needed to display the first OPTION in a SELECT box in a different colour. Simple in HTML but I just couldn’t find a solution that would do it the cakeish way. Until I RTSC and found that I can specify the options in a more complex way.

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