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Moving From Zend Framework to Laravel 4 18 Apr 2013 | 12:50 am
Let me preface this blog with the following: I have been a programmer for the past 12 yrs and have used php for nearly 8 yrs, ZF1 for nearly 3 yrs (10+projects) and ZF2 since its inception. So, I unde...
ODBC Linked Tables With Access 2007 & Windows7 25 Sep 2012 | 05:26 pm
I find MS Access to be a convenient tool to interface with most relational database engines (most notably, MySQL and MSSQL). I am much more productive navigating through linked tables in Access and wr...
Unit Testing Email Functionality in Zend Framework Applications 16 Mar 2012 | 08:46 am
Testing applications that send out emails could be quite a hassle if the tools provided by the framework are not properly leveraged. Zend Framework is quite a test-friendly suite and, as you will soon...
Jenkins Continuous Integration, Zend Framework and Netbeans 8 Mar 2012 | 02:07 pm
PHP sure has matured into a serious programming language from its humble beginnings. As more and more complex software is being built using PHP, it makes sense to use sound software engineering princi...
Custom Zend Form Slider Element 22 Oct 2011 | 11:34 am
In one of my web projects, I had a need for a slider UI element. I use Zend framework extensively in all my projects, and my initial approach was to use pure JQuery coupled with $_POST variables to in...
ASUS Transformer TF101 28 Aug 2011 | 09:56 pm
Last week, in the midst of the HP Touchpad frenzy (which I could not get in on, by the way), I decided to pull the trigger on an ASUS Transformer (TF101). After having played with it sufficiently, I a...
Regression Analysis with PHP 2 May 2011 | 11:07 am
Introduction: Regression analysis is one of the core tools of statistics that helps investigate relationships between variables. If there is only a single explanatory variable, it is termed “Simple R...
Handling Static Files in Zend Framework 16 Apr 2011 | 09:10 pm
There are a couple of alternatives when you need to render static files in your Zend Framework MVC application: 1. Completely bypass the framework The easiest solution is to move such content into a...
memcached on 64 bit Windows 26 Mar 2011 | 12:34 pm
Download memcached 1.4.4-14 from here (note that later versions of memcached have been modifed and DO NOT work as windows services). Unzip to a folder on your computer (say d:\memcached) Open an ADM...
Installing APC (3.1.6) on WAMP (64 bit) 26 Mar 2011 | 11:41 am
My dev machine has 64bit wampserver installed on windows 7 (MSVC9 (Visual C++ 2008) , Thread Safe, x64). I wanted a caching solution that works well with this setup – As of this writing, APC is the on...
