We have a select box for entering a position title. The select box, powered by Select2 4.0.13 (which is a great library but the documentation really sucks), “auto-suggests” from existing titles (to encourage consistency). However, there are also have times where they are editing someone’s existing title and our users […]
I fully admit, while I knew the basics of interfaces in PHP, I couldn’t really see much use for them. They just didn’t seem to have much purpose to me, so I mostly ignored their existing. Until now! While working on the redo of one of our core applications, AgriLife […]
With all of our Zend Framework 2 apps, our users can stay logged in as long as they are active – as determined by them essentially hitting pages within the app. If they stopped navigating around, the system would time them out after X amount of time (usually 20 minutes, […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of my goals for this year is to finish at least two courses via Udacity. I specifically went with them because they have a range of courses of relevancy to my work and particular areas of focus, it has a good reputation for its content, and it has a […]
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 […]
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) […]
Back in March, I mentioned our decision to implement PSR-1 and PSR-2 in our code. It has now been a few months and while doing better, I’m still having to catch myself with little things, like curly brace placement, and I still hate using {} for controls instead of alternative […]
Because we (being myself and my partner) are occasionally masochistic, we decided right after doing a huge change to our current project update, one we likened to throwing a nuke in out app, we also decided we needed to come to terms on variable naming schemas, specifically regarding variables. Our […]