I am on a mission to get to grips with using theZend Framework [http://framework.zend.com/about/overview] for building web applications. At MOO, the Zend Framework is used in it's more toolkit-like component library capacity and I'm also pretty familiar with its structure from…
This is a super short snippet that I ALWAYS forget how to do! Often I want to build more complex where clauses with Propel Criteria [http://www.propelorm.org/wiki/Development/Criteria] which use SQL functions such as UCASE, LCASE, LEN and the date functions DAY, MONTH and YEAR. This…
Have you ever tried to parse, process or preg_replace some HTML? Ever tried to do it when the HTML is UTF-8 encoded? Getting rid of white space can be tricky, here's a few tricks I've learned. I was playing around with debugging some HTML output…
Perusing my Google Analytics data shows up some interesting results. For starters the top search query which sends people to my blog is "symfony accessing object in a form". This has been consistent for several months, but there is no article on my blog which answers that question.…
When working with large and complex datasets in Symfony, there comes a point where the ORM layer (Propel or Doctrine) causes more problems than it solves. Sometimes it's necessary to debug large SQL queries built using the ORM layer, and at other times it's appropriate to…
It's now been over a month since my last post to this blog. I had promised not to ever let it get longer than 10 days, but this past month has been an exceptional circumstance. I've had a few enquiries regarding part 3 of my YUI…
Generally, when I find something interesting I use twitter & delicious to spread the word, but this morning something in my RSS Reader got me excited enough to decide to write a blog post. Thomas Rabaix has hit the nail on the head with his latest offering: Wording is not…
Back in April I posted a Snippet on Symfony Form Formatters [http://erisds.co.uk/symfony/snippet-symfony-forms-setting-the-form-formatter]. Since then I've done a bit more work with them and thought I'd share my custom form formatter for displaying forms as definition lists. Forms are often marked up…