One task that comes up time and time again is creating a dropdown form element that is populated by a list of countries. In the past I solved this problem by keeping an key/value array of countries and their codes and loaded this in via a loop. Not any more. By using Zend_Locale and Zend_Form [...]

I recently came across a bug in some code I’d written where the input filters were doing something strange on certain peoples computers and truncating the inputted text when hitting a single quote. After a bit of googling I realised that the htmlentities filter I was using wasn’t set to the right character encoding. Everything [...]