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December 7, 2009

PHP Team Development book review

So I’ve finally finished the book! OK, I finished it a couple weeks ago but haven’t had a chance to post up a review yet. Of course, I had every intention of finishing it a lot earlier considering I was flying for nine hours to the States and then another few hours on to Mexico – and the journey back...

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September 30, 2009

PHP Team Development (book)

The other day I had a new book sent to me called PHP Team Development, written by Samisa Abeysinghe and published by Packt Publishing. Unfortunately, it arrived at work when I was on holiday so I haven’t been able to have a look at it yet. :-/ However, I’m back today and have the book in my hands (well, not...

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February 15, 2009

Shorten urls automatically with a Zend Framework filter

I think we can all agree that URL shortening services are great and are very handy to tidy up those long and obnoxious links. However, a lot of the time people simply forget to use them, or often don’t know about them in the first place. I’ve noticed this in a blog system I wrote using Zend Framework. On one...

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September 23, 2008

Quick and easy email encoding view helper

Here’s a quick and easy view helper for Zend Framework that will encode an email address. It will encode just an email address or return a whole mailto link. The encoding is basically the same as in the Smarty template engine. Obviously there’s a lot of room for improvement; javascript encoding, representation as an image, and so on… but then...

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August 1, 2008

Zend Framework 1.6RC1

If you haven’t heard already, Zend Framework 1.6RC1 is out and has lots of interesting new features. Finally there’s a SOAP component (seemed odd to me to have an enterprise-level framework without it!) There’s also a paginator, XML configs can have attributes, Dojo integration and lots more. It’s been out for about 10 days as of the time I write...

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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...

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June 5, 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:

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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...

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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 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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