http://stephenminded.com I'm a web developer in Ottawa. Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:26:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mayflower.de was nice enough to send me a Zend Framework reference poster when I asked for one. Very nice of them! They even sent it all the way from Germany. It's a really large poster with lots of good info about ZF. Here's a picture of it: Check out their blog ... http://stephenminded.com/posts/zend-framework-poster-from-mayflowerde My previous post talked about Zend_Plugin_Loader and how to use it in your code. In that post, I also mentioned that Zend_Plugin_Loader is used quite a bit throughout the Zend Framework code. In this post, I'm going to show you how to make use of the plugin loader to load ... http://stephenminded.com/posts/load-custom-elements-with-zend_form In applications built on top of a library of reusable code, you may want to load your custom class components before those of the library. For example, your library has a user model of Lib_Model_User. In general, this class is enough for your needs, but for a particular case, you'd ... http://stephenminded.com/posts/lazy-class-loading-with-zend_loader_pluginloader I wanted to spice up my theme a bit with my latest twitter post. I also didn't want to write any php to do it because I was feeling like writing some javascript instead. I also didn't have a whole lot of time with the NHL playoffs on and all. ... http://stephenminded.com/posts/twitter-posts-with-jquery-you-can-too My last post talked about the available Zend Framework PEAR channels out there. I've been using one to grab our Zend Framework installs for work and it's worked well. My only complaint is that the PEAR version is lagging behind the currently released ZF version. Tonight I thought I would ... http://stephenminded.com/posts/zend-framework-pear-channel-update A while back I tried to find a Zend Framework PEAR channel, but was unsuccessful. Reading through the December issue of PHP|architect I was pumped that someone has been kind enough to start maintaining one. It is available here: http://code.google.com/p/zend/ Update: After posting this to twitter, Matthew Weier O'Phinney let me know ... http://stephenminded.com/posts/zend-framework-pear-channel I've moved this blog over to wordpress. I never gave my homegrown CakePHP blog engine the attention it deserved and it ended up becoming a hindrance. So, for now I'm stuck on a default wordpress theme until I can migrate my old theme over. Hopefully wordpress will let me focus ... http://stephenminded.com/posts/moved-to-wordpress It's pretty common to want to validate a URL when processing a form. The Zend Framework has a lot of validators that can be used out of the box with Zend_Form. Unfortunately, there is no Zend_Validate_Uri. Upon closer inspection, you will find Zend_Uri, which indeed can be used to check ... http://stephenminded.com/posts/validating-urls-with-zend-framework I originally wrote this on my employer's blog, shift+control. I'm cross posting here because I don't blog enough ;) It's pretty common to tweak your website assets from time to time. This may be an update to a stylesheet, some javascript, a logo or any other file. When doing this, you ... http://stephenminded.com/posts/getting-around-browser-cache-with-htaccess I originally wrote this on my employer's blog, shift+control. I'm cross posting here because I don't blog enough ;) Like a lot of developers, we use SVN on a day to day basis. I can't imagine working without it. We've been using it for over a year now. Svnlook on revision ... http://stephenminded.com/posts/monitoring-svn-commits-with-twitter