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Lee Blue’s Blog: How To Implement A Ruby on Rails style before_filter With The PHP Zend Framework
04 Feb
Posted by Joe as PHP 5
Lee Blue has posted something looking to bridge yet another gap between Ruby on Rails and PHP - a method for adding before_filter functionality to PHP.
I often use this when implementing a simple login screen for a password protected section of my application. In a Zend Framework application you can implement a preDispatch() function in [...]
In filtering through the mass of projects that he’s collected around him, Padraic Brady has decided to cut one loose - the Zend Framework package he’d been developing to introduce YAML parsing and functionality to the framework.
I’ve been going through all those open source projects and cutting the dead weight. [...] One of the victims [...]
Debugging can be one of the most important tools to a developer (web or otherwise) and one of the more popular PHP IDEs, Zend Studio, makes it relatively simple to do. The Developer Tutorials website has this new tutorial to help you get started on the path to being bug free.
For the majority of experienced [...]
On the SitePoint PHP blog today, Troels Knak-Nielsen has written up an article that talks about dependencies in your applications - those little interconnections your code relies on to do more with less.
In lack of better words, I’ll call this compositional programming style. It’s a style which is usually more prevalent with experienced programmers. [...] [...]
Tony Bibbs, in the wake of last week’s surprise from Microsoft to Yahoo, has posted a few of his thoughts on the matter.
I woke up this morning to the news of a $44 billion buy-out offer from Microsoft for Yahoo!. This is being covered from all angles in various tech sites like Slashdot but I [...]
In an earlier post John Lim pointed out an interesting issue with how certain numbers are handled in PHP - ones starting with a zero:
That’s because any number preceded by 0 is treated as an octal number, and 9 is an invalid octal number. [...] The silly thing is that hardly anyone uses octal nowadays, [...]
Wolfgang Drews (of DynamicWebPages) has posted a mini-tutorial on his personal blog showing how to integrate the popular Zend Framework with the YUI Javascript libraries from Yahoo! to create an autocomplete field in your app.
Maybe this short snippet helps someone out there when using YUI autocomplete feature together with the Zend Framework or any other [...]
Chris Hartjes’ Blog: The Devil’s In The Details (or, Handling Sequences in Postgres in CakePHP)
04 Feb
Posted by Joe as PHP 5
Chris Hartjes has shared his experiences in dealing with the combination of Postgres and CakePHP and convincing it to work with sequences in your tables.
I had been struggling with some weirdness that CakePHP has been displaying while trying to add some new features to the baseball league website, where Cake + PHP 4.4 + Postgres [...]
On the {H{Riot.com site today, there’s a new tutorial talking about how to customize your site’s Smarty templates a bit more using external plug-ins, specifically one for making those “code block” sections seen all over the web.
We will first learn how block plug-ins can be used in your templates, and then learn how to create [...]
