Archive for August, 2008
Quickie: Module-specific Error Controllers in Zend Framework (1.5)
In my quest to do some alterations on ZF error handling (in particular, render the view if the action or controller is not found, makes it real easy for my designer to prototype) I had the desire to be able to allow modules to have their own ErrorControllers. Unfortunately, the Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler() default does not allow [...]
End Of An Era (Goodbye to PHP 4)
PHP 4′s end-of-life is today. With that I bid adieu to the half-assed OOP support and general primitive nature of the platform. However I cannot be so callous as my first forays into PHP were with 4.0 releases… Now the question is how much faster will the dumping of PHP 4 (and 5.0/5.1) be and [...]
Displaying N-Deep Trees (Remember Your Algorithms Course?)
Often times when doing web development one has the need to categorize things. And not only basic categorization, n-deep hierarchical categorization. I’ve already discussed storage and retrieval of such data, but there comes a time when one needs to display this information. Sometimes people build systems to only account for their current requirements. If the [...]