Of course it is November, so I’m immersed in National Novel Writing Month and the bulk of my writing is focused on that. Thus far, I am behind, alas, but I’m still hanging in there. I’ve been this behind before and its’ highly likely I will win, mostly just need to […]
A relatively quick post this week, but I discovered something new in MySQL (as in new to me). A common query one might need to run is to get a list of rows from one table and it's related rows in a connected table. For example, given these tables: Let's say I […]
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. […]
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 […]
To give my brain a bit of a rest from the Zend learning and in preparation for some future projects, I decided it was time for me to look at responsive design techniques and using CSS grids for doing site design. Lordy was that stuff confusing! Took me an hour or […]
Now it's time to build an authentication system for our application, so that we have public stuff for browsing while all the add/edit/delete functions are secured. There are of course a variety of ways to authenticate users and Zend has adapters for several popular ones including DB, the somewhat antiquated […]
Before I started with the expansion of the Zend app I did in the last series, I went through all the models and redid them in the manner I did the Movies one. I decided I liked it better for a few reasons: Cleaner file structure – having a bunch of folders […]
Taking a little break from my learning application to really just jump in with both feet into our current first Zend application. As we're getting near the deadline for completion, I was tasked with creating the SOAP stuff that another app will be accessing to pull data from our application. Before anyone […]
Whoa boy do we have a lot to cover this round! I got my input filters in place, created my first hydrator strategy, built my first custom validator, and dealt with uploading and manipulating images! In short, I finished off the basics of the add/edit movie model! Yay!! Also, as […]