Zend Framework Front Controller

Zend have finally released a preview of their new framework at http://framework.zend.com/. I've started having a play and their implementation of a Front Controller is quite similar to what I've been playing with. This isn't a total suprise as there aren't that many ways to do a Front Controller :) The documentation on the Zend/Controller directory is completely non existant, so I've worked out the basics by reading the source. Fortunately, the source isn't too… continue reading.

Posted on 4 March 2006 in Zend Framework 1

PHP UK Conference 2006 in Detail

I wrote this post to the PHP West Midlands mailing list, so thought I'd put it here too: Iain asked, so here it is! It was a one day event for £50 on the early bird thing and £75 if you ordered later. I stayed at a hotel around the corner for £35 inc breakfast. I drove down and parked at Perivale tube station and used the Underground from there. Total cost for the entire… continue reading.

Posted on 12 February 2006 in Conferences

PHP UK Conference 2006

Just got back from the conference and thought it was excellent. The social last night was good too – makes me wish I lived in London! It was a one day event for £50 on the early bird thing and £75 if you ordered later. I stayed at a B&B around the corner for £35 inc breakfast. I drove down and parked at Perivale tube station and used the Underground from there. Total cost for… continue reading.

Posted on 10 February 2006 in Conferences

WordPress 2.0 Rewrite Rules

We recently upgraded my wife's blog from WordPress 1.5 to 2.0 and it broke the mod_rewrite rules used to support the legacy Movable Type urls. When she migrated from Movable Type to WordPress, we moved to /{year}/{month}/{day}/{slug} type urls from the default Movable Type rule of /archives/{id}.html. We read the manual at the time and put the following into the .htaccess file: RewriteRule archives/0*(d+).html /index.php?p=$1 RewriteRule index.rdf /index.php?feed=rdf RewriteRule index.rss /index.php?feed=rss RewriteRule index.xml /index.php?feed=rss2 and… continue reading.

Posted on 18 January 2006 in WordPress

Dynamic JavaScript Tabs v1.0.3

Simon Hamilton contacted me about adding ids to each tab, so I did! I've also fixed the CSS error that Adam noticed and correctly updated the version number in the license block! Update: I've created a separate page to hold the download link

Posted on 17 January 2006 in JS

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