Tweets
- Must remember not to read twitter during the football after putting the England game on pause for 20 minutes.
- I wonder if there's a way to invoice that fat twat Bob Crow for my taxi bills for the day.
- Last post is me currently livin' it up on a rooftop in Paris.
- http://plixi.com/p/43439895
- Anyone know of a PHP job that isn't 50% fixing other peoples mistakes and 50% dealing with the fallout of poor descision making?
- The joy of getting away on short break is always tempered by the fact I have even more mindless bullshit to deal with on my return.
Author Archives: Tom
Zend Controller redirects and unit testing
This afternoon I found a bug in some old code that I’m refactoring and retrofitting unit tests into. Well, not a bug exactly but a Zend Framework controller quirk. It drove me absolutely nuts for ages until I went to … Continue reading
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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
Posted in General, Open Source, PHP, PHPUnit, Symfony, Twitter, Zend Framework
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Zend Form country lists
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 … Continue reading
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htmlentities and character encoding
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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