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July 15, 2008

Application running really slow

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 a bit as well as work colleagues. The speed difference was...

General/Zend Framework Comment: 1

June 11, 2008

StringToTitle filter

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/Zend Framework Comments: 0

April 11, 2008

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 caveats: It’s just a proof...

Code snippets/Experiments/PHP/Zend Framework Comment: 1

January 29, 2008

Zend Framework 1.5 preview release

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 features. Some notable ones are the inclusion of Zend_Form, Zend_Layout,...

PHP/Zend Framework Comments: 0

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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August 13, 2007

Easy chained select lists using Zend Framework and Prototype

Building a set of select lists that are dependant of each other can be a daunting task, but for a simple two-level list – in that what you select from one drop-down will changing what’s displayed in one or more other drop-downs – is actually quite easy thanks to Zend Frameworks and Prototype, both of which support Json.

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