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. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
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Auto generating basic models for a Zend Framework app
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 to that, a few […]
Force a file download
Here’s a small function that will allow you to force a file download. Very easy to use, too! Here are some examples of how you might call the function: Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
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 […]
Robust email address validator – with address suggestions!
I’m sure you’ve seen the simple email address format validation function; they’re usually a simple regular expressing that just check the address portion (the user@example.org bit). That’s really only a bit of the validation that should be done. The RFC822 specs detail that the format of email addresses can be much larger, for example, it […]
Getting a list of project tags from Subversion
So there you are nicely tagging your project in Subversion, but for some reason you need to get a list of all the tags being used… That situation came up for me today. I thought it was going to be some really complex way of getting the tags, involving the use of hook scripts and […]
Create a random thumbnail of a video file
Create a random thumbnail of a video file Looking at sites like YouTube, you may think it’s quite hard to create a lot of different thumbnails from video files, and have them from random times within that file. But, no, it’s not! As this article shows, by using the very fabulous FFmpeg library, it’s actually […]
Create a registration key
This simple function allows you to generate a random registration key in the format, ‘1224-54B1-7D35-5EF7’. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Validate a UK postcode
You’ve probably seen this before, if not a thousand times, but here’s a simple function to check the format of a UK postcode. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet