Drowned World

Same kind of moon, same kind of jungle.

Month: October, 2009

Twitter Lists

Twitter have introduced lists as a way to organise who you follow.  I’ve started building a PHP list that follows interesting sites and prominent members of the community. Check it out here:
http://twitter.com/teengenerate/php

Zend Framework FlashMessenger

For the uninitiated in the dark art of Zend Framework, the flashMessenger action helper is a session based message system that allows you to store and retrieve messages while redirecting and forwarding to different pages. A quick browse through the source code reveals that the flash messenger does nothing more complicated than adding a few [...]

Zend_Db_Expr and how to use it

One thing that comes up a lot when updating a database is incrementing values. You might have a value stored in a column and you want to increment it by one or more but you don’t want to query the record first. This adds additional overhead to the server by running an extra unnecessary [...]