Drowned World

Same kind of moon, same kind of jungle.

Category: Open Source

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 [...]

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 [...]