Zend Config XML and INI files - How to Specify False and Other Non-String PHP Data Types
Friday, August 27th, 2010Zend Config INI and Zend Config XML are handy adaptors that allow you …
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Simple PHP pretty date time now!
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010Sometimes I just wanna print a date and time in PHP quickly. I’m forever going off to …
The Naïve Democracy and Social Justice of Bayesian Spam Filtering
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Project Honey Pot is a web community that gathers evidence and shares information to fight …
How to Convert a Legacy Site over to Zend Framework - 1 Favour Refactoring over Rewriting
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Over the years, I have often been faced with the choice of whether to refactor or rewrite.
In …
Setting the referrer in SimpleTest web tests - faking the HTTP_REFERER
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Sometimes you might want to make a PHP web page do different things depending on the value …
A PHP secret to understanding Data Mapper Pattern in Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (PoEAA)
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Here’s a snippet of a Java code example in Fowler’s esteemed book, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture …
How to Unit-Test for Expected Exception Thrown in Simpletest - *The* Answer
Saturday, January 16th, 2010I keep forgetting how to assert that an Exception is going to be thrown in Simpletest version …
Prioritising URL Normalization Steps for Search Engine Optimisation of a Legacy Site
Friday, January 15th, 2010I have skimmed through a paper on normalization techniques (by Sang Ho Lee, Sung Jin Kim, and …
PHP - Getting __sleep to return all properties of an object
Monday, January 11th, 2010If you write a custom __sleep() magic method for a PHP class, you are expected …
How To View Page Source without Reposting in Firefox
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009So,
- you are viewing a web page using the Firefox web browser (mine is version 3.0.15), …
