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A few months ago, I wrote an article about how to implement an “under maintenance” plugin using Zend Framework plugins. This plugin allows you to easily redirect users of your website to an “under maintenance” in case of a planned downtime. Simply set a flag in your application.ini and that’s it. In this post we will extend this plugin.
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It’s finally done. The project that I’ve been working on during the last couple of months is online. Basically, Scoops is a Semantic Web application that enables you to… well, maybe it’s easier if you simply have a look at it ;-).
Some technical notes: the project has been implemented using Zend Framework on the server-side and jQuery on the client-side. The backend (the process that crawls the web, analyzes & organizes text, and calculates a relevance for each user) uses dozens of free or commercial web services.
Version 1.0.1 of ZIDS (Zend Framework Intruder Detection System) has been released. You may download the source code here (Google Code).
If you don’t know yet what ZIDS is, or want to know how it works, please have a look at the manual
Just in case you missed the webinar of Michelangelo van Dam: have a look at his excellent webinar on QA (Quality Assurance) Tools for PHP. Michelangelo presents some really useful tools like PHPUnit, PHP_CodeSniffer, PHP Mess Detector and so on.
You’ll find the webinar here…
If you read my post regarding how to integrate Doctrine using the Zend Framework, you might also be interested in this post written by Matthew Weier O’Phinney on how to autoload Doctrine and Doctrine entities using the Zend Framework.
Sameer Borate published his version of a Google Translate Wrapper for PHP on his blog and on Google code. Actually, Sameer’s class pretty much does what I expected it to do, i.e. translating text. The only thing I didn’t like was the fact that – as Google’s API only accepts text up to 5000 characters – it simply creates chunks of text by chopping the text using a dumb str_split($text, 5000). So here is a smarter version of Sameer’s Google Translate Wrapper. Continue Reading
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A few days ago I stumbled uppon an Open Source project that I find very useful: ZFDataGrid. ZFDataGrid enables you to automatically display data stemming from Zend_Table, an array, Doctrine, etc. as a table. Continue Reading
This semester I am giving a lecture on Web Technologies. I’m not going to publish the slides on all the basic web stuff (HTML, CSS, …). However, for all those of you interested in programming with PHP and JavaScript, I will publish the PHP, JavaScript and jQuery slides. Basically, all the slides come with some sample source codes. All you need to execute the sources is a standard WAMP or LAMP installation. Continue Reading
Version 0.6.1 of ZIDS (Zend Framework Intruder Detection System) has been released. You may download the source code here (Google Code).
If you don’t know yet what ZIDS is, or want to know how it works, please have a look at the manual
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