Category Archives: Open Source

Twitter Lists

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Tom

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

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Zend Framework FlashMessenger

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Tom

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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First impressions of Symfony PHP Framework

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Tom

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

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Tom

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

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Tom

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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