SitePoint WebTech Blog: Give Your Visitors a Rough Time
In a new post to the Web Tech blog over on SitePoint, Toby Somerville has posted something he calls "RoughTime" - his method for displaying a more "human friendly" output of a timestamp. When asked...
View ArticleDebuggable Blog: How to bend Cake's Model::find() method to your needs
New on the Debuggable blog, Tim Koschutzki has posted a method to get the fund() method in the CakePHP framework's models to bend to your will. CakePHP allows you to use your own "find-types" for the...
View ArticleChristian Stocker's Blog: FOTD: REFLECTIONCLASS()->NEWINSTANCEARGS($ARGS) is...
Christan Stocker has posted a finding of the day that he ran across and wanted to share to help out other developers out there: For okapi we needed to have a function which loads any class with any...
View ArticleDebuggable Blog: Code Insults Round 1 - Why switch blocks are dumb
In the first of his "I will insult your code" series, Nate Abele looks at this submitted code and points out that maybe blocks of switch/case statements aren't such a good idea after all. The entire...
View ArticleZend Developer Zone: Adding Multi-Language Support to Web Applications with...
On the Zend Developer Zone today a new tutorial has been posted about multi-language translation for your site with PHP and the Translation2 PEAR package. If you're using PHP, adding multi-language...
View ArticleMichelangelo van Dam's Blog: Zend Framework context switching for HTML content
Michelangelo van Dam has a new post to his blog today looking a a method for doing some context switching in his Zend Framework application to use jQuery in his app's static HTML output. I had already...
View ArticleLorna Mitchell's Blog: One-Step Symlink Switch
Lorna Mitchell has a handy tip you can use in deploying your (linux-based) PHP applications - a one-step symlink switch that can make toggling between deployed versions of your code simple. When I...
View ArticleMartin Psinas' Blog: Switching to PDO
In a new post to his blog Martin Psinas talks about some of his pains experienced with upgrading his code to use PDO instead of the mysql extension for database interaction. I read not too long ago...
View ArticleJoris de Wit's Blog: Extending different layouts for Ajax requests in Twig,...
Joris de Wit has a (very) quick post about a handy tip he found about switching layouts easily with Twig in his Symfony2-based application - a handy ternary sort of switch that can detect when...
View ArticleDerick Rethans' Blog: Multiple PHP versions set-up
Derick Rethans has a new post today looking at a method for setting up multiple PHP versions on the same machine and switch between them with a little help from some simple bash scripts. For many of...
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