October 2007 – Andy's blog o' goodness

October 24, 2007

Force a file download

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 * ‘204 No content’ header is sent. * *...

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October 22, 2007

Portal (the game from Valve)

A couple days ago I bought Portal via Steam, and even though it’s probably one of the shortest games I’ve played it is undoubtedly one of the best! The premise is pretty simple; solve puzzles by using the portals that you can shoot in to the floor, ceiling or wall and walk through (or in some cases, fall in to...

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October 19, 2007

Zend Certified Engineer

During the php|works conference in Atlanta this year I took the PHP5 Zend Certification, and I’m pleased to say that today I found out I had passed! So I am now pleased to say that I am a Zend Certified Engineer for both PHP4 and PHP5. And just to prove it…

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October 3, 2007

Simple image view helper for Zend Framework

Here’s a simply view helper for the Zend Framework that can be used to display image tags. It checks to see if the image file exists and if not then it’ll use the data url scheme to output a very simple image that, ironically, says ‘NO IMG’ on it. 🙂 Please note, though, that I’ve only seen Firefox support this...

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Monthly Archive: October, 2007

Force a file download

Portal (the game from Valve)

Zend Certified Engineer

Simple image view helper for Zend Framework