Yesterday I sat for the Zend Certified PHP Engineer exam. Within 10 minutes, I knew I was going to fail the test, and less than an hour later it was confirmed. I not only failed, but I totally bombed it, getting what I presume would be a “passing” score in […]
Over the last two weeks I’ve been working on figuring out Zend Framework 3 and how to migrate an app from 2 to 3. Zend does have a migration guide as part of their ZF3 docs, but I found it woefully inadequate for the reality of the upgrade. I also […]
This year my partner and I attended ZendCon. It was our first conference in years, since our ColdFusion days, as well as the first PHP conference we’ve attended. It was hosted in Las Vegas, at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, so I also got my first trip to Vegas […]
To improve performance on our apps, we’ve been working on a combination of optimizing queries to require fewer additional calls just to get a single bit of data (like the name of who added a record) and using caching to access data that doesn’t change frequently. For example, core pick […]
As part of several of our apps, we have links to pop up a modal with a Google Map that shows where an address is located, with an option to get directions that opens up in the full Google Maps site. So I thought I’d share the code to do […]
We’ve used Zend Frameworks very nifty Form Collection element in multiple applications to deal with forms where there may be one or more repeating fields. For example, our custom contact list function allows users to add search groups and rows to those groups. The Form Collection goodness made it eas(ier) […]
For our final application recode from ColdFusion to PHP, we hit on needing to do some custom form elements. We’d already done custom form view helpers to implement Bootstrap design (which I’ll cover in-depth as either a separate series or as part of the An Eclectic World Recode series). This, […]
With our Mach-II apps, I had a series of RegEx Search/Replaces in Dreamweaver that let me quickly turn a list of variables into the various basic components of a bean, gateway, function arguments, etc. For example, this one does all the properties in a bean. So if I had a variable […]
Wow, it's been nearly two months since my last post! Whoops! I'm still around, it's been a strange mix of quiet and hectic lately. Quiet in that we wrapped up our first PHP Zend project and got it out the door. Thus far it's worked pretty well other than the occasional completely […]
Before I continued on some more, I realized I needed to "fix" my MovieShelves module to make it's routes more uniquely named, otherwise it will conflict with other modules. 😛 I also updated my app to bring the DataTables code to 1.10 standards and to do a few visual tweaks. […]