I am working on a project with a growing API. Our responses are all JSON, and we started to handle errors in the API controllers instead of the ErrorController. To make it more easy I altered the ErrorController to also response in JSON and use the corresponding HTTP status and created a HttpStatusCode class for use wi ... Continue Reading
Zend.com isn’t updated yet, but my Zend Studio updated itself to 8.0.1. There is no change list but here is a screenshot of the updated modules Continue Reading
When you use jQuery Dynamic Form don’t forget to set the normalizeFullForm: false when creating a dynamicForm $("#div").dynamicForm("#plus", "#minus", { normalizeFullForm: false }); Default this value is set to true. When it’s set to true, it will try to normalize the who ... Continue Reading
When I tried to install the latest Zend Server 5.0.1 on a clean install of the latest ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I got an error… The following packages are BROKEN: php-5.3-mysql-zend-server php-5.3-mysqli-zend-server php-5.3-pdo-mysql-zend-server After some researching I found a quick solution: apt-get install mysql- ... Continue Reading
Check your auto-update feature because they released Zend Studio 7.2 A changelog is available on the Zend website. Here’s a small list of all the changed packages /plugins/com.ice.jni.registry_7.2.0.v20100314-1500 /plugins/com.zend.php_7.2.0.v20100314-1500 /plugins/com.zend.php.codegallery_7.2.0.v20100314-1500.j ... Continue Reading
If you need to start php cronjobs setting up your whole Zend Framework environment for use is the cronjob scripts is really easy. Just create a new directory cronjobs in your Zend framework project. Create the directory at the same level as the application and public folder. This way the code is not accessible for the ... Continue Reading
Upgrading to Zend Studio 7.1.2 maybe breaks your autoComplete function. To get it working again delete the folowing file Zend/workspaces/<your workspace name>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.dltk.ui.prefs That will force Eclipse to create a new DLTK preferences file and, for me ... Continue Reading
Playing with Zend_Pdf all my files open perfectly in preview.app. But switching to Adobe Acrobat I got this error: Adobe Reader could not open 'file.pdf' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded). I ... Continue Reading
Grab the latest version at the Zend Framework website. This update fixes 46 issues. This release also resolves six security vulnerabilities found in the last few weeks. Those vulnerabilities are also patched for the 1.8 and 1.7 branch. Bug [ZF-5156] – Custom pagesize results in fatal error [ZF-5163] – _getP ... Continue Reading
Below is a code snippet if you want a simple sign-up form on you website using Zend_Form. Features are set email adres to lowercase using Zend_Filter_StringToLower. Use Zend_Validate_Emailaddress, to check the correctness of the email address. Check password for StringLenght; minimal 6 & maximum 20 characters. Cu ... Continue Reading
jiraPress is now available on wordpress 2.9. Proof that it works is this site Check the jiraPress page for more details… Continue Reading
I use FileVault on my Snow Leopard setup to protect my precious code. When I turned it on my local apache couldn’t accesss my local test folder of PHP code anymore. To correct this you need to adjust the apache user in the httpd.conf. You can find the snippet below around line number 130. User www Group www cha ... Continue Reading
After I upgraded the kernel (2.6.28-16)on my ubuntu 9.04 box, I noticed my ATI driver could use an upgrade as well. So here the steps to rebuild the latest ATI driver. In my case that would be 9.11 to power the HD 2400 XT card. First upgrade to the latest kernel. Do a dist-upgrade to rebuild any kernel-drivers. sudo a ... Continue Reading
Doing a update check in the Zend Studio 7.1 beta generates an error when trying to update the Mylyn connectors Cannot complete the install because of a conflicting dependency. Software being installed: Mylyn WikiText SDK 1.2.0.v20091015-0500-e3x (org.eclipse.mylyn.wikitext.sdk.feature.group 1.2.0.v20091015-0500-e3x) ... Continue Reading
If you have problems with transcoding strings, for example, between ISO-Latin and UTF-8, it can help if you set the internal encoding to UTF-8 ini_set('mbstring.internal_encoding','UTF-8'); ini_set('mbstring.http_input','UTF-8'); ini_set('mbstring.http_output','UTF-8'); Continue Reading
Grab the latest version at the Zend Framework website. This update fixes 76 issues. The next release is set for December 15th. This new version might be the tagged as 1.10.0. Release Notes – Zend Framework – Version 1.9.6 Bug [ZF-3642] – Wrong count of executed queries [ZF-4841] – Zend_Form_Deco ... Continue Reading
In the new Zend Studio 7.1 beta the ZendCodeAnalyzer binary plugin is replaced by acom.zend.php.semanticanalysis.core_7.1.0 eclipse plugin. The functionality seems the same, but there is one drawback… I use the old ZendCodeAnalyzer in combination with php_codesniffer to check for potential code errors in our subv ... Continue Reading
Grab the latest version at the Zend Framework website. Lot’s of Zend_Db fixes in this release. Release Notes – Zend Framework – Version 1.9.5 Bug [ZF-2358] – Zend_Service_Yahoo::webSearch ‘site’ option [ZF-2606] – Adding htmlentities() in createElement() [ZF-2962] – Zend_Db_S ... Continue Reading
A Rijksdriehoekscoördinaat is used by the Dutch cadastre. Since all cadastre geo-data is not according the WGS84-standard, you need to convert a Rijksdriehoekscoördinaat (RD) to latitude / longitude values, for use in Google maps for example. You can convert them with this function PHP-function function rd2wgs ($x, ... Continue Reading
I have some databases with geo-location data in it, and wanted it displayed on my iPhone using Layar. Doing some research on this, I found a great presentation on Geo/Spatial search in MySQL. Reading this presentation shows that doing a search of geo-locations in a radius around a geo-location, using a mysql version o ... Continue Reading
As of now, jiraPress is available for download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jirapress/. Continue Reading
I just created my first wordpress plugin. It’s a very small but handy plugin for making hyperlinks to JIRA issue trackers. I’m using it already here in this post. A changelog post with links to the actual issues is now just a matter op copy-pasting… Check the jiraPress page for more details. When my c ... Continue Reading
Grab the latest version at the Zend Framework website. Lot’s of Zend_Db fixes in this release. Release Notes – Zend Framework – Version 1.9.4 Bug [ZF-6653] – Calling from() and join() “out of order” causes incorrect SELECT generation [ZF-7423] – Inexisting property _config in c ... Continue Reading
Version 0.4 was released a few days ago, adding support for JSONP. JSONView is a add-on for firefox and really helps debugging JSON server-respones. Read about version 0.4 in the developers blog. Continue Reading
Zend framework is my PHP framework of choice, and I like Zend Studio 7 for coding. I try to unit test as much as possible. But when in comes to User Interface testing, plain phpUnit cannot do the job. Then Selenium comes in play. So with’s the big deal? It isn’t working out of the box… My setup is a M ... Continue Reading
