A few days ago the “old” Google web search API has stopped working for the web public. Not a big surprise after the release of the AJAX web search API. A customer of mine is using search results in his mini sites to give them a little more body. This is why I needed to look for some alternative. During the Zend PHP conference earlier this year, I got in touch with the Zend framework and learned that there is already a class to obtain results from the Yahoo search engine. The class has features to search the Yahoo API for web sites, image, news and the local search results. (more…)

• Creating Models that do not use a database as a data source
• Using Zend_Session_Namespace
• Implementing the Cart Views and Controllers
• More Forms, View Helpers, and so on (more…)
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  List Tutorial build projects with Zend Framework

  Table of Contents for Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework

  1. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 1
  2. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 2
  3. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 3
  4. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 4
  5. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 5
  6. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 6
  7. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 7
  8. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 8
  9. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 9
  10. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 10
  11. ZF Community/CMS Bugfixes

  Update: Since writing this series I have chosen to not work with Zend DB anymore, I’m using PHP Doctrine instead, I have also thrown out Smarty in favor of H2O. Doctrine is a proper ORM which is far superior in functionality to Zend DB, and H2O feels like a much cleaner and more modern templating solution than Smarty.

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  There are a lot of online resources available where You can change, enhance and make funny photo editing without knowing and program like Photoshop. Maybe You want to be on magazine cover, want Your own personalized dollar or maybe just want to change Your mood? Now You can do it with just few mouse clicks and in few seconds. I collected all the best free photo editing services, which will keep You busy for quite a while and You will receive amazing results – maybe funny, maybe silly – but You’ll get original photos and few more reasons to smile. (more…)

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  -  Ecart os

  After a while I could figure out how to install the Mcrypt library on Appserv and windows.

  Steps:

  1. Remove the ; (enable) from the php Mcrypt extension line on PHP INI file
  2. Copy the windows Mcrypt DLL - http://files.edin.dk/php/win32/mcrypt/ - to Windows/System32 folder
  3. Restart Apache (and probably windows - I did)
  4. Open a phpinfo file and verify if mcrypt is enabled and what types of encryptions does it carries. If you are using a encryption method that mcrypt does not offer support, it will give a mcrypt module initialization error.
  ]]> http://www.kingf1.com/2009/11/30/mcrypt-with-appserv-on-windows/feed http://www.kingf1.com/2009/11/06/10-practical-php-regular-expression-recipes http://www.kingf1.com/2009/11/06/10-practical-php-regular-expression-recipes#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:48:38 +0000 admin http://www.kingf1.com/2009/11/06/10-practical-php-regular-expression-recipes Latest update Email validation seems quite tricky. Do you have a better solution? Let’s have email validation challenge. And give the user the best way to validate an email format. (more…)
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  ]]> http://www.kingf1.com/2009/11/04/zend-framework-models-auto-loading/feed http://www.kingf1.com/2009/11/03/sphinx-full-text-search http://www.kingf1.com/2009/11/03/sphinx-full-text-search#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:42:38 +0000 admin http://www.kingf1.com/2009/11/03/sphinx-full-text-search Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use.

  Generally, it’s a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes).

  As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index. Yes, I know about CMU’s Sphinx project.

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