Zend Framework Modular applications

July 1st, 2009 admin Posted in Open source, PHP & MySQL | No Comments »

Jeroen-Keppens has written a good article on how to create a modular application with Zend Framework:

I like my code nicely seperated in manageable blocks, that I can reuse whenever I want. Needless to say, I’m a big fan of the modules in Zend Framework. It isn’t always very easy to set it up though.

He covers how to set up modules using the zf command line tool along with a module bootstrap, before covering views and models. Reading this article will certainly help you understand how to use modules in your apps.

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Registering front controller plugins in Zend Framework 1.8

July 1st, 2009 admin Posted in Open source, PHP & MySQL | No Comments »

Wenbert Del Rosario has posted an article on how to register a front controller plugin using Zend Framework 1.8.

With ZF 1.8, we can now use the application.ini file and he shows the format of the lines required, along with setting it up so that you use your own name space.

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Zend Framework Tutorial- simple signup and login authentication

June 3rd, 2009 admin Posted in Open source, PHP & MySQL | 1 Comment »

After writing separate articles on different Zend framework topics, its now time to write a full fledge tutorials. I am starting from a simple sign up and login authentication example and hopefully will discuss some advance topic in future. Read the rest of this entry »

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Simple jQuery Dropdowns

May 31st, 2009 admin Posted in Open source | No Comments »

There are lots of dropdown menus already out there. I’m not really trying to reinvent the wheel here, but I wanted to try to do something slightly different by making them as dead simple as possible. Very stripped down code and minimal styling, yet still have all the functionality typically needed. Here are the features:

  • Cross-browser compatible (even IE 6)
  • Multi-level and retains “trail”
  • Very minimal styling (easy to adapt)
  • Very minimal JavaScript (short bit of jQuery)

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Can We Prevent CSS Caching?

May 29th, 2009 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, Design and Layout, HTML & XHTML Tutorials | No Comments »

When you are developing a site, there is a heck of a lot of “refreshing” going on. You start to get a pretty good feel for what your browser is going to pick up on a single refresh, and what it won’t. For example, I find that if I over-write an image file on the server, it will take me two refreshes for that image to update on the live site. Then maybe I’ll pop over into Opera and see how the site is doing over there, only to find on the first render of the page that is a really old version. Uh oh. Refresh. Refresh. Oh… there it is.

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