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How to post PHP Object in a form: Serialize, Encode Base64, Decode Base64 and Unserialize.

henriquemattos — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:00:56 +0000

I had a though time trying to post an object inside a form so I wouldn’t need to query database again with the same result just to export the rowset to a xls.

What happened is that I had a search form with a big variety of combinations such as City, State, Status, Gender and [...]

Cascade delete with Zend Framework | Using Reference Map and Dependent Tables

henriquemattos — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:48:09 +0000

I was googling around to find a good way to delete row from a column and automatically cascade to parent table. After reading a lot of bullshit, found the solution with the code above:

My Unit Model (Unit.php)

<?php

class Unit extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract

{

protected $_keys = array(‘id’,'addressId’);

protected $_name = ‘unit’;

protected $_sequence = [...]

Social Counter plugin used on Deadline wordpress theme by AWESEM

henriquemattos — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:03:56 +0000

After a couple of hours trying to figure out what was wrong with the file_get_contents($url) used on the Deadline wordpress theme to get twitter followers, the fix just came into my mind. The string being passed with the Twitter Username ($twitter_username) was not being concatenated to the url (‘http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=’) as string. So, when file_get_contents($url) tried [...]

Connect to database during bootstrap with Zend Framework

henriquemattos — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:32:18 +0000

It’s quite funny when the most complex problem is solved with the easiest solution. I just found myself crazy about how to connect to database from a Controller Helper so I could get the Roles and the Resources to implement the ACL. Well, it turns out that if you want something to be bootstrapped right [...]

Bootstrap module only if database table exists. (or: how to load specific modules in Zend Framework)

henriquemattos — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:52:33 +0000

I’ve been posting a lot about modules and Zend Framework lately. I’m really amazed about this product and it’s helping me to develop a good CMS. I’m sharing the application and library folder of the CMS with different projects and not every project has every module installed, because of that, I can’t bootstrap automatically since [...]

Using Declarative Referential Integrity with Zend_Db_Table (how to dynamically create table with Foreign Key using Zend_Db_Table_Abstract)

henriquemattos — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:33:20 +0000

I’m not really into this database thing. I study about MySQL just for the basics. I’m even considering to move Doctrine 2 into my whole Zend application. While I don’t do that, I have to figure out how to implement the functionality I described [...]

Dynamically install module table using Zend_Db_Table_Abstract and SQL file

henriquemattos — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:28:24 +0000

Finally, after finding out how to have module based configuration, I could implement what I say is the most useful method for application development: creating database table on demand! Although I lost an entire night for this, it’s actually really simple. All you need [...]

Resource for a module specific configuration in Zend Bootstrap

henriquemattos — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:08:27 +0000

Afther thousands of ‘Googling’ for how to implement module specific configuration, I got into this post from Jeroen Keppens about how to implement a resource in bootstrap to load configuration files stored in module’s folder. It’s really, really good. But I read lots of times and [...]

Mobile posting from my Nokia N97

henriquemattos — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:33:05 +0000

Hi, this is just a try out post to see how this Symbian S60 app works.

There should be this text and a photo I took in Buenos Aires last January. Cheers!

jQuery, a new The Ugly Duckling story

henriquemattos — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:27:50 +0000

It happened for a long time with PHP: a good and easy script language to program was gaining users all over the world, specially those who wanted to surf the wave but didn’t want to oar. All what you should do develop a CMS a couple years ago was to go to a forum and [...]