Category Archives: Web Development

Zend Debugger Safari Toolbar

Posted on Jul 1st, 2010 by inxilpro

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

Posted on Mar 30th, 2010 by inxilpro

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

Posted on Mar 25th, 2010 by inxilpro

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

Posted on Mar 24th, 2010 by inxilpro

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

Posted on Mar 20th, 2010 by inxilpro

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

Posted on Mar 17th, 2010 by inxilpro

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

Posted on Mar 12th, 2010 by inxilpro

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)

Posted on Dec 4th, 2009 by inxilpro

[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…

Posted on Nov 23rd, 2009 by inxilpro

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

Posted on Nov 18th, 2009 by inxilpro

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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