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.
Category Archives: PHP
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
Posted in Open Source, PHP, SEO
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