Accessing the calling controller in a model within Kohana

A real quick post here and I’m open to suggestions as this has been bugging me for a few hours and I can’t stop thinking that there’s a better way to do it.

I’m using the Kohana PHP Framework and I need to access a controller from a model and yes I’m aware this defies the MVC pattern but I can’t think of any other way to do it.

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Kohana, the swift PHP framework

Just thought I’d share a quick post; I’ve been using Kohana (PHP framework) in my recent project and I must say it’s the best framework I’ve used, albeit I’ve only used CakePHP and CodeIgniter so I can’t compare it to much.

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EsenAPE – send and receive SMS in real time using APE, jQuery, PHP and libape_controller

Here we have a sample demo of sending and receiving SMS (text messages) in real-time using APE’s libape_controller. We also utilize an SMS gateway called Esendex which is a UK based company – hence the name EsenAPE. When a message is sent to Esendex (e.g. you reply to the text you sent yourself) it will call a URL (RPC.php) we can then pass this onto APE for updating the users UI. The idea originated from a project I’ve just completed with work, Alert and Respond which basically does what this demo does but not in real time (polls every 30 seconds). It’s a good example of how to use the libape_controller – let me know what you think

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Using jQuery With APE – change the background-color with PHP

A very quick post in regards to Matijah’s comment on Using jquery With APE. We can easily modify the colorChanger application so we can change the background via PHP. This could be extremely helpful in pushing UI changes to users clients, something I struggle to implement using plain PHP and JavaScript.

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Diving into APE modules and the JSF – creating topics for channels

So today we’re going to give the ability of giving a channel a topic, much like IRC and in the process learn more about the internals of APE. This requires us to modify the libape-chat.c code and create some additions in the chat.js of the Chat Demo. We’re not going to end up with complete code but you’ll see how flexible APE is and how quickly we can extend it.

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Using jQuery with APE – an OOP approach with the DUI

Following up on my previous post, we used a singleton “class” by using a function. I’ve recently come accross the DUI (Digg User Interface) which is a jQuery plugin and extends jQuery so we can use classes – much similiar to MooTools Class method.

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