http://blog.amnuts.com php projects, javascript, and... stuff. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:50:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While working on an application built on Zend Framework, I experienced a really odd slow-down of the system while running on the web cluster at work as opposed to my machine at home. I couldn't see what the issue was myself, and it seemed to baffle people on #zftalk ... http://blog.amnuts.com/2008/07/15/application-running-really-slow/ Some little *insert a whole stream of expletives* has used my email address as the sender of a lot of spam.  I know this because opening my email box today resulted in no less than 400 failure notices, undelivered notices, auto replies and bounce messages. Needless to say; I was not ... http://blog.amnuts.com/2008/06/15/email-address-being-used-to-spam/ Here's a little view helper to display a tag cloud. All you have to do is supply an array of tags, with the tag name being the index and how many times it's used as the value, and the url you'd like the tags to go to. [php]< ?php /** * ... http://blog.amnuts.com/2008/06/11/tag-cloud-view-helper/ I like the filtering capabilities of the Zend Framework, but for some reason there doesn't seem to be a string to title case filter (though there is a string to upper and string to lower). So here it is: [php]< ?php /** * @see Zend_Filter_Interface */ require_once 'Zend/Filter/Interface.php'; /** * Convert a string ... http://blog.amnuts.com/2008/06/05/stringtotitle-filter/ Someone exploited a hole in the version of Wordpress that I Was using and managed to destroy my last post about automatically creating model for your Zend Framework app. Unfortunately, I just don't think I have a recent backup of the database around so might not be able to ... http://blog.amnuts.com/2008/06/02/damn-hackers/ Do you have a database with foreign keys and just wish you could have something automatically create your ZF models from it? Well, today that was me. So as a little proof of concept, this is the code I came up with to do it for me... But before we get ... http://blog.amnuts.com/2008/04/11/auto-generating-basic-models-for-a-zend-framework-app/ The team that I work in - University of Sussex Web Team - have just created large portions of the campus in Second Life. Well, when I say "the team" it was mainly down to our graduate intern who has done a fantastic job... So much so that it's ... http://blog.amnuts.com/2008/03/12/second-life-at-the-university-of-sussex/ For those that don't know by now, version 1.5 of the Zend Framework is now out in preview release. Congratulations to everyone who has had apart in getting out this release - from programmers to documentation writers to project managers! There are a lot of very interesting updates and new ... http://blog.amnuts.com/2008/01/29/zend-framework-15-preview-release/ A few times I have been asked at work to decide on whether we should build an application or use something that's out there already. Unfortunately, it's never an easy choice for us... On the one hand something can be built that's geared exactly to what is needed, but ... http://blog.amnuts.com/2007/12/17/the-lesser-of-two-evils/ Here's a small function that will allow you to force a file download. [php]/** * Force a file download via HTTP. * * File is required to be on the same server and accessible via a path. * If the file cannot be found or some other error occurs then a ... http://blog.amnuts.com/2007/10/24/force-a-file-download/