In this registration system I’m currently coding, I have a custom Zend form to deal with a group of checkbox/input pairs (which I’ll post about later). For Zend forms, these come out with names like fieldname[row][number][whichfield]. Yep, three sets of square brackets. Fun fun! It works great for the Zend […]
Bet you thought I forgot about this series, eh? 🙂 Got caught up dealing with the SOAP stuff – that was simple to build with Zend but ended up not working with the legacy system we were working with so had to redo it to break out of Zend all together […]
As I mentioned in part 3, I went ahead and made models for the genres, studios, and series. Then I started working on bulking up some of the interfaces. For example, I wanted to see how many titles are in a set genre, series, etc. Let's look at the series area […]
I didn't forget about this set of posts, promise! Taking a break from the PHP stuff, I'm back with part 2 – replacing an Ajax-driven CFGRID display with a dataTables one. You might be asking, well why would I even want to use an Ajax-driven table versus just doing a regular HTML table […]
If you follow a lot of ColdFusion blogs, you’ve probably seen the on-going movement to get CF developers to drop the use of the hideous UI elements that are part of ColdFusion, culminating in the launch of ColdFusion UI the Right Way. At one time they were “useful” for folks […]
For one of our current projects, we're building a "contact list" feature, i.e. a way for users to pull up lists of persons in the system. They have a choice of stock lists and can build their own custom lists. I might try to blackm persuade my partner to do […]
I'm a big fan of the dataTables jQuery plug-in. It takes your tables of data and adds all the sorts of goodies that all the sorts that clients adore, like pagination, filtration, column sorting, and pretty styling with minimal fuss and code. It can read from a variety of data […]