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August 23, 2012

Zend Framework 2 – JSON-RPC Server

Creating a JSON-RPC server in ZF2 is very similar to how you would do it in ZF1, so you could pretty much follow the documentation for version 1. However, here is an example of how to implement with version 2.

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August 2, 2012

MSC Executive Mobile Charger review

The other day I was asked if I’d like to review a solar charger battery pack for portable devices that comes from Mobile Solar Chargers. At first I was a little dubious because I’ve seen some battery packs and solar chargers that have been rather badly constructed/have a flimsy design and provide as much power a lemon-powered battery. But as...

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April 13, 2012

Handy little function

Quite often I find myself wanting to run the same script by either cli or through a browser. But I don’t want to fill my echo statements with <br /> tags if I’m on cli because that’d just look ugly, but at the same time I don’t just want to use \n when outputting in the browser because everything would...

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September 26, 2011

Merge two urls using PHP

This is a handy function for combining two urls. The urls could be strings or parts in an array (as you’d get from the parse_url function), or you can mix-and-match. Check out the examples in the docblock below to see what I mean. loading gist…

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June 18, 2011

Dreamhost and procmail – parsing your mail with a script

I have a Dreamhost account and have done for some while. Typically I’m happy with their service, but yesterday was the first real frustration I had with them. I wanted to use procmail to send email to a script for processing. I was sure I had done this before on Dreamhost, but couldn’t seem to get it to work in...

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May 15, 2011

Using CSS3 sucks (right now, but I’m sure it’ll get better)

Am I the only one to think that using a number of aspects of CSS3 right now really sucks? The potential it offers is great, but does anyone really think doing something like this for a gradient is a productive use of time? [code lang=”css”] background: #9880cc; /* Old browsers */ background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #9880cc 0%, #bab3cc 93%); /* FF3.6+ */...

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April 8, 2011

Sorting an array of objects by one or more object property

Quite often I find myself having an array of objects and needing to sort that array of objects by property (either one property or multiple)… Imagine, for example, getting a large result set from your database and ordering in the query just takes too long. Or perhaps you’re getting results from a web service and that service doesn’t return the...

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October 31, 2010

Extend Zend_View_Stream to easily escape view variables

Zend_View_Stream is used pretty much when ever you use Zend_View, and I’ve blogged about how handy it is before. But as it’s a class like any other, you can extend it to give added functionality. One such use is to add automatic escaping to your view variables when you want. So instead of doing: [code lang=”php”] <?php echo $this->escape($this->var); ?>...

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October 10, 2010

Today’s date is the answer

The date today is 10/10/10. 101010 in binary is 42 which is, as we all know, the answer to life the universe and everything in it.

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October 9, 2010

PHPNW

Usually I’m a total wallflower at conferences, gravitating to only the people I know. This time round I’m trying to change that and speak to people, ask speakers questions, and all that. Right now, though, I’m enjoying dinner. 🙂

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