I’ll introduce this topic with a warning – This article doesn’t show you how to completely reorder your entire Navigation, it does however show you how you could populate a new container from an existing one and reorder it. Zend Navigation currently doesn’t allow you to nominate a default Navigation Container class. So while we [...]
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Zend_Navigation Tricks: True tab navigation with sub menus – Part 3
Posted: 16th August 2009 by Grant Perry in Zend FrameworkTags: jsTree
Part 3: Implementing jsTree which uses jQuery (optional javascript expand/collapse) This is a completely optional step in this series and really has nothing to do with Zend Framework because by this based on the client side we have all the HTML we need. What we’ll be doing is setting up jsTree a jQuery tree component [...]
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Posted: 28th July 2009 by Grant Perry in Apache, Application development, Dreamhost, Infrastructure, Linux, Web development, Web serversTags: cheap, discount, Dreamhost, hosting, price, promotion
I’ve had my hosting with Dreamhost now for a little over a and have been very happy with!!! I was previously using Site Ground but converted for the following reasons: Dreamhost allows you to host unlimited domains, databases, email etc under your account Dreamhost allows complete control of your DNS (so you can point a domain/sub domain to [...]
Software I couldn’t live without…
Posted: 7th May 2009 by Grant Perry in Development tools (app), Programming (web), Technologies, Web servers, WindowsTags: best, development, favourite, software, tools, top, utilities
Over the years we all build up our own collections of tools which help us be more productive little soldiers. We realise a need for something to help us to achieve an end goal, or a lot of the time just ask ourselves “surely there is a faster and easier way of doing this”. The [...]
MS Access: Update rows using another table
Posted: 7th May 2009 by Grant Perry in Development tools (app)Tags: access, multiple rows, tables, update
My problem was I wanted to update data in one table based on the data in another table. In this senario I had two identical tables in my MS Access database. Table1 is the original and Table2 has been imported from Excel. This MS Excel spread is an exported version of Table1 which was updated [...]
Most professional PHP developers should be familiar with phpDocumentor, an “auto-documentation tool for the php language”. If you’re not please go check it out and start using it immediately! It has some great features, but that’s not in the scope of this post… Unfortunately most of the phpDocumentor templates leave much to be desired! However [...]
Wheres the Model in Zend Frameworks MVC?
Posted: 5th December 2008 by Grant Perry in Zend FrameworkTags: form, model, mvc, validation, Zend Framework
Don’t get me wrong ZF is my PHP framework of choice however it’s really lacking the Model concept from the MVC design pattern! The Model is where you should be implementing your business logic, data validation for example… Zend Framework implements interfaces for filtering and validation on it’s Form components. The framework however lacks these interfaces on other [...]