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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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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
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
Unfortunately, I didn’t had the time to participate in this years ZendCon :-(. For all those of you who had the same problem: here are the slides of the talks. Nearly all of the slides are very interesting for all those of you involved in any kind of web project. Continue Reading
In one of my last posts I shared some information about PHP-IDS (the PHP Intruder Detection System project) with you. In this article, I would like to share a few lines of code that will enable you to easily integrate PHP-IDS into your Zend Framework project. Furthermore, this little plugin allows you to easily define how to deal with possible attacks (e.g., send an email to the admin, make a log entry, or redirect the attacker to a special side).
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Let’s make a bet: if you don’t have to maintain your (professional) web application within a few weeks after release, I owe you a pint of beer. Maintaining websites can be a complex tast: you may have to adopt your database schema, batch jobs, PHP files, and so on. As your web site will be down during these tasks, you should inform your users that your application is under maintenance and when it will be online again. This simple Zend Framework plugin might help you.
Ever wanted to have a fancy image gallery and slideshow on your website? This tutorial will show you how to implement an image gallery for your Zend Framework application using Dojo (see screenshot). Dojo’s image gallery already comes with some very nice built-in features like a thumbnail picker or a slideshow. Continue Reading
Zend Framework already offers mechanisms to build secure web applications, e.g. filters. But why reinvent the wheel? PHP IDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System) is an open source security layer for your PHP application. This tutorial will show you how to use PHPIDS in your Zend Framework application. Continue Reading
Why not use a Zend Framework plugin which again uses Tidy to check the validity of all the HTML code generated by your scripts? Wouldn’t it be great to have something like this? Well, actually it would. Unfortunately, I have to admit that this wasn’t my idea ;-) – in fact it was Ryan Mauger who posted a very interesting article about this issue on his blog.
Interested? Follow this link to read Ryan’s post.
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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