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authentication

PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW is null

Ok, so you’re trying to setup password protection on your website using HTTP authentication. Unfortunately despite the request for password working your authentication keeps failing. If you check the output of your script and the password and username variables are not populated as expected it will usually be for

css

Using TextMate for easier CSS3

Over the past couple of years Webkit has popularised many fancy new CSS tricks. Amongst these the ability to rotate an element is certainly one of the most useful. Fortunately it’s also widely supported in other browsers, even in lowly old IE right back to version 5.5. The

code

Multiple changes and a delete on same object in doctrine

If you want to make several different changes to a doctrine record object you might find yourself slightly puzzled when it comes to deleting related objects. $user['Address']->delete(); $user['Address']->state(Doctrine_Record::STATE_LOCKED); (...) $user->save();``` It seems that

gmt

Zend_Date time part and GMT

If you live in the UK you might have a surprise waiting in store for you if you use Zend_Date for the time part only. For a while I even thought this was a bug, however digging deeper has shown that actually it’s Zend_Date that is right,

code

PHPUnit & Selenium - screenshot path problem

PHPUnit_Framework_Exception: Response from Selenium RC server for testComplete(). ERROR: Command execution failure. Please search the forum at http://clearspace.openqa.org for error details from the log window. The error message is: Component returned failure code: 0x80520001 (NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH) [nsILocalFile.initWithPath] Setting up Selenium RC

autload

Autloading modular forms & models in Zend Framework 1.8

It’s not really obvious with the error messages you get, but using a thing like Form_Login does not work out of the box with a modular structure. Which is slightly surprising considering that it’s inside the default module. I have found examples like the second one below,

plugin

Redirect in controller plugin - Zend Framework 1.8

If you need to redirect while inside a controller plugin, for example in preDispatch() here is a quick way to do it: $redirector = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('redirector'); $redirector->gotoUrl('/login/');

bind

Hitch. Object-oriented event handlers with jQuery

Moving to jQuery from YUI has been a 99% positive experience. Probably the only thing I’ve really missed was the ability provided by YUI Event to control the object scope that an event handler was executed in. When you attach an event to an element in jQuery within the

code

Doctrine Many To Many With Extra Fields

Recently I have started using Doctrine with Zend Framework. Most of the time it is great, but sometimes I get stuck on this or that issue. Most of my problems so far have been connected with the Many to Many relationship. Here are a few tips I learned the hard

code

Zend_Db_Select multiple table joins explained

It sounds like a simple task – retrieve the result from a join SQL query. Unusually you can even find documentation on the official Zend Framework site explaining how to put together a query that will return the results from a JOIN query. Unfortunately when it actually comes to putting theory

lookaround

Regex for Autolinking URLs

For a recent project I was wanting to perform an exceptionally common task. Converting things that look like URLs in the text into clickable links. However wherever I’ve seen this implemented before I’ve always encountered the same annoying problem, namely the links break when the user types a

css

Firefox ignores tabs but not spaces in a pre tag

Sometimes HTML can be so frustrating. I love tabs in my code, however while styling the new blog theme I run into a Firefox only problem – despite being in a tag tabs would be ignored. I found references to this werid behaviour, however it seemed to affect the displayed indentation

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