Drowned World

Same kind of moon, same kind of jungle.

Month: August, 2009

First impressions of Symfony PHP Framework

In the last few years, every project I’ve worked on has run on top of Zend Framework or a custom in-house framework. Most of my work involves extending existing applications and that’s the major reason I haven’t looked into any of the alternative PHP frameworks out there. In the last few months there have been [...]

Generating an SEO friendly URL in PHP

Everyone wants pretty URLs right? Lots of key/pair GET values in URL strings look ugly and are bad for SEO. I was just messing about with a big database table of records that needed converting to SEO friendly urls and needed a quick and easy fuction to automate the process. When I need to do [...]

jQuery 1.3.2 – To live is to die

I’m sure anyone that has developed in javascript has had monumental headaches over the years trying to write code that allows event handlers to operate on dynamically created elements. The main problem I always seem to come across is assigning event handlers to elements that are generated after the page has loaded. jQuery 1.2.x went [...]

The aims of this blog

I find as a web developer that I’m constantly learning new things to get certain tasks done and then subsequently forgetting them if it’s not a skill that I use very often. This blog is an attempt to write down things as I learn them so I can reference them at a later date rather [...]