Prettier Accessible Forms with Zend Form and Zend Config

When I first started working with Zend Framework and showed a designer the output from Zend Form we had a few days of conversations back and forth and researched on whether or not the dl/dt setup was going to be sufficient for what we wanted and also “correct usage”.
While working through our first project we […]

UniqueField Validate Helper

The last 4 projects that I have created I have built using Zend Framework. The more I use it the more I find things that make my life easier. My first shot at creating a validator was for checking whether or not a username is unique. . I need this functionality […]

Zend History Action Helper(Codeutopia)

Back a few weeks ago I came across a very handy Zend Framework Helper for tracking a user’s browsing history(here).  I was needing something very similar for a project I was working on, actually I need it for most projects I work on.  While implementing it I noticed there were some things that I wanted […]

Robyn

At SpinWeb we have started creating an online scheduling application, Robyn.  Our goal is to make the best online scheduling app.  Obviously that may be a little lofty but we have to have a goal in mind :-).  We have launched the first “teaser” page so go signup for the mailing list and we’ll get […]

Zend Coding Standards

I’ve always adhered to my own “standards” when writing code but once I started working more with other developers I realized that we didn’t agree on what the “right” way of writing code was. Most of it was just simple things like does the curly brace go on the same line or on the […]

JavaScript print_r()

If you are anything like me I constantly fight with having an object/array in JS and I want to see what all of its properties are. I ran into this the other day and decided to actually find a solution to the problem of not knowing what properties there are for an event. […]

Using Wordpress Excerpts - “Read More”

I got asked this question today;

I’d like my postings to be condensed with some type of “Read More” link at the bottom to expand them for reading

Having an additional link to “read more” in your Wordpress posting is a great idea for a couple of reasons.
The first reason is a matter of preference. […]