PHP
Encoding Numbers as Base 36
A few days ago I went and registered the domain dashto.cc and created a really quick-n-dirty URL shortening site.
php|architect’s Guide to Programming with Zend Framework
One of the first books to be published on the topic of Zend Framework was php|architect’s Guide to Programming with Zend Framework (Amazon). If you’re looking for an “in” into ZF then — eh, well, skip this book.
PHP Certification
I get asked about this a lot. Why did I take the PHP Certification exam? What does it do for me? Was it hard?
MVC With The Zend Framework
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 [...]
Basic Regular Expressions
Today I want to talk about regular expressions (usually referred to as regex or regexp). No matter what application you are creating, chances are you will need to parse text in some way. It might be for validating user input or for extracting information from a string of data in some arbitrary format. I have [...]
Auto-DST Detection
Online apps usually have a way to set your timezone so that all times are local to you. One common feature many end-users expect is some mechanism that automatically detects when DST is on/off and changes things accordingly.
Cross-Site Request Forgeries (CSRF)
Today I want to cover a kind of security issue that is not addressed very often. Just about any book or article aimed at developers has some warning about XSS and SQL injection. Those two attacks are arguably two of the most harmful, but there are certainly other things to be weary of. In this [...]
Intro to the MVC Pattern
There’s a lot of talk these days about design patterns. The most talked about pattern in the realm of web development seems to be the MVC pattern, or the Model-View-Controller. It is this pattern that many of the most popular frameworks are built around. Frameworks like symfony, CakePHP and CodeIgniter enforce this pattern and offer [...]
symfony Framework
Yesterday I spent 6 or 7 hours working with the symfony framework. After investigating several other frameworks available, like CakePHP and CodeIgniter, I settled down to work with symfony and I’m glad I did. It has a pretty big learning curve, but the free book is an invaluable resource (I’m actually thinking of buying the [...]
Pagination
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 [...]
