Category Archives: Web Development

Zend Debugger Safari Toolbar

Update: It turns out Safari is more problematic than Firefox, so I’ve switched back.  I have no plans to finish this project.  Feel free to fork it on GitHub. When Safari 5 came out I decided to make the switch. … Continue reading

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Better Zend Framework Documentation

If you’ve every tried to navigate the Zend Framework documentation’s longer pages you’ve probably looked everywhere for a table of contents.  Sure, there’s a TOC for the major sections of the component, but if you’re looking for a specific part … Continue reading

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Automatic Virtual Hosts w/ Proxy Auto-Config

I often tell my co-workers that if they’re doing the same basic thing over and over again, to let me know, because there’s probably a way to automate it.  That’s why whenever I used to start a new web development … Continue reading

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Review: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development

At the beginning of February PACKT Publishing sent me a copy of Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development by Keith Pope and asked me to post a review.  Unfortunately a bunch of stuff came up, so it wasn’t until this … Continue reading

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Zend Framework Bash Completion Script

If you use the Zend Framework CLI interface much you probably find yourself expecting tab-completion to work.  Well, with this bash completion script it will.  Just add the following line to your .bashrc or .bash_profile: source path/to/zf.bash Next time you … Continue reading

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Namespacing ACL resources & Galahad_Acl

In most of my applications I like to handle authorization (querying the ACL) in one (or more) of three ways: Authorize access to a model’s method Authorize access to a controller action Authorize access to an arbitrary “permission” In general … Continue reading

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Zend Framework URI validator & filter

For the last couple of months I’ve been incorporating portions of applications I’m working on into my Galahad Framework Extension project.  Right now it’s not at a point where I’d feel comfortable promoting it (you can check out the project … Continue reading

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More PHP Modeling (w/ video demo)

[Updated with follow-up video] About a month ago I posted some ideas about PHP modeling in the Zend Framework and requested feedback. After a month of on-and-off discussions through this website and #zftalk I decided to sit down and implement … Continue reading

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Crazy idea…

I’ve been toying with the idea of using my cache as a data store for a project where the data doesn’t need to be updated very often.  Basically, I’d write out plain XHTML documents and then parse the data using … Continue reading

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Calculating the difference in days between two Zend_Date objects

This just came up on #zftalk, and it appears that the information out there is either incomplete or incorrect, so I thought I’d just put out a simple solution.  Here’s a simple way to calculate the difference between two Zend_Date … Continue reading

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