Shhhh! Keep quiet cakephp console

Its been a while since I've had a chance and/or motivation to write any notes down, in the words of Willie Wonka "So much time, so little to do....ahhhh, strike that, reverse it..."

At any rate this note is in relation to the cakePHP console and keeping it quiet. Sometimes you need the verbose / debug information and other times it makes it impossible to work in the same shell window...

Linux disk usage statistics

The following are some useful commands to figure out which directory is consuming all of your disk space...

Displaying your cakephp 1.2 version

The CakePHP dev's have made it super simple to display your cakephp version, I have only just stumbled across it when looking for something else in the API. Like me you might not have spotted it, its not an essential bit of code but a nice to have for those administering many sites on various servers and much better than finding the version text file on each install. I display the version number in the system setup part of the sites admin dashboard along with other framework related settings...