Dim Sum Restaurant in Birmingham

Was looking around online for a decent Dim Sum Restaruant in Birmingham before the weekend and was pretty shocked when even the Dim Sum Association website (yes there is a dim sum association!) only mentioned “MUST Dim Sum Restaurant”.

I have been to Must and it is over priced and more of a bar than somewhere to go and get quality Dim Sum.

So on my little Dim Sum mission I checked out the menu of my favourite chinese restaurant (Chung Ying Garden), it is often voted as the best chinese restaurant for chinese people in Birmingham.

Their Dim Sum menu is fantastic – at least 60 different dishes so on my visit last night I went for some tasty Siu Mai, BBQ Pork Buns, and some steamed prawn and chive dumplings.

So if you are looking for a decent dim sum restaurant in Birmingham please check out this restaurant – it really is fantastic!

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Finally – Multiple Model Pagination with Multiple Widgets

Don’t get me wrong – I love CakePHP – im not an expert in it by any means but can quickly knock up a site and it definitely saves me time when coding stuff – no doubt.

One of the main problems I have with it is its pagination classes, true, they work fine if you are just looking to paginate a single model on a page. Whatabout paginating multiple models? For example – say you have a “User Profile” page – on this page you would expect to see things like “Gallery”, “Friends”, “Messages” etc etc – that alone is 3 models.

And say you needed to paginate each of these models to say show only 5 at a time and allow them to be sorted by title, date, etc?

Currently its not very easy with the current set of tools available in cakePHP. Luckily CakePHP has a fantastic community of skilled proggrammers (Certainly more skiilled than I am!).

One such programmer is a guy called Andrew who has released a helper and component out to the community which allows for such functionality.

You can find the code here (http://github.com/angel333/listing/tree/master).

Basically you instantiate the Helper and component in the controller:

class PostsController extends AppController
   {
       public $components = array ('Listing.Listing');
       public $helpers = array ('Listing.Listing');
       ...

Then after setting up some routing you set your data array using something similar to this:

$this->set('data', $this->Listing->create($this->Post, array (
       'default' => array (
           'order' => 'Post.created DESC',
           'limit' => 10,
       ),
       'user' => array (
           'order' => array (
               'Post.title',
               'Post.name',
               'Post.modified',
           ),
           'limit' => array (10, 25, 50, 100),
           'search' => array (
               'Post.title',
               'Post.content',
           ),
       ),
   )));

then call the ever so handy scaffold function to see what code you need to put in.

Everything is on his readme in detail – and from my experience he is very helpful if you contact him!

Good work Andrew