If you talk to me regularly then you already know how much I love stream wrappers in PHP. The other day I was positively giddy with how easy it was to solve a particular problem by using stream wrappers. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been using the Zend Framework a lot lately and have come to really appreciate it. Today I want to write about ZF and how to use the MVC components. This post will be all about ZF itself, how the MVC components work, and getting a simple example up and going. I will write another post later on some more advanced usage. Read the rest of this entry »
Pagination refers to splitting up a large result set into multiple pages. Probably the most recognized use of pagination is that displayed by Google when you perform a search. As long as there have been applications, there has been a need to paginate. Everything from long documents to search results, it’s something almost every app you use has in common. Considering just how common pagination is, it’s the one thing that seems to trip up many amateur programmers. Today I’m going to go over how to create a simple pagination feature in PHP with data collected from a MySQL database. You can download the sources and example database at the end of the post. Read the rest of this entry »