Ever had the problem that you had to send emails (HTML and text), e.g. newsletters, registration infos etc. to your users? Ever tried to open these emails using Microsoft Outlook? They will probably look awful because MS Outlook only supports a subset of HTML and CSS (for a detailed list of all supported HTML tags and CSS attributes, please visit Microsoft MSDN). This tutorial will show you how to easily create HTML emails which will look good in all Email-Clients including MS Outlook. Continue Reading…
Dear reader,
I went online with this blog only a few days ago and was really surprised how much impact, i.e. readers, this blog attracted within only two days. Especially the posts regarding developing applications for Facebook and how to use ZF’s context switch to easily integrate views for mobile devices in your application have been read by quite a considerable number of users. So I will definitely try to keep you up to date with more stuff regarding these two issues.
And before I forget the most important thing: Thank you all for this motivating start!
Bye
Christian
PS: I am still looking for co-authors. If you are interested, please send me an email…
Just found some useful links that might help you if you are interested in HTML5 and/or CSS3. Check them out…
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I just had an interesting discussion with a friend who asked me, if there is something like a Seam Framwork for PHP and/or the Zend Framework? Actually, I don’t know… Continue Reading…
I am getting old and my capacity of remembering things is degenerating ;-). So, this is more or less a reminder to myself as I stumbled across this problem several times…
Have you ever had a HTML element (e.g. a <div> tag) with a style “width: 100%” and a margin or padding? Continue Reading…
This short post will not focus on creating and maintaining unit tests for your application (although I strongly recommend using unit tests). Instead, I would like to briefly discuss two “GUI Testing” tools that I find quite useful. Continue Reading…
Doctrine is one of the most common ORM tools for PHP and Zend Framework is one of the best PHP application frameworks. So, bringing together Doctrine and the Zend Framework is like bringing together vanilla and chocolate ice cream (or whatever your favorite ice cream flavors are ;-)).
ORM is short for Object Relational Mapping and is basically a concept that helps you to bridge the gap between objects in object-oriented programming languages and records in relational database systems. This tutorial will show you how to use Doctrine in a Zend_Framework application. Continue Reading…
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