I'm using the ORM module in Kohana 3 and instead of displaying the first row of a database result set, what query should I use in my code when I want to get a random row from a certain table?

I'm using Kohana v3 and ORM, I have two models, Model_A and Model_B related by "has_many" through a pivot table, which has an additional column. I can save data in that column in the pivot table us...

I have been using Joomla and I love its administrative facility to put the site down for maintenance. As I have seen, all requests to the site if it is in maintenance mode is routed to a single pag...

I'm using Kohana, but I think this question is more general. I have been doing form validation in the controller, and it has worked well so far. But lately, I've ran into a problem. I have a comm...

Generally, my development has only covered small to medium size companies and e commerce sites. My next project will encompass say 30 sites - however, they'll have about 95% in common with each ot...

I saw this at the Kohana documentation: $content = new View('pages/items'); $items = new Items_Model; $content->items = $items->get_items($page_no, 10); // page to get starting at offset, n...

I would like to know if it is acceptable/preferred to use self::method() and parent::method() when working in php classes. You can use $this->method() but $this-> can also refer to a class variabl...

I've been using CodeIgniter for some time, and I liked it a lot. It looks like I need to move to Kohana though, because my other team member needs our code to fully use PHP5 features to their fulle...