Category Archives: Zend Framework

Zend Controller redirects and unit testing

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Tom

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

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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Zend_Db_Expr and how to use it

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Tom

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

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Tom

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

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Tom

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

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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