| Phil Sturgeon's Blog: How to: Multi-site CodeIgniter Set-up |
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The CodeIgniter framework, by default, is set up to work with a one site instance. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case and several developers have found the need to make it support more than one website based on the same codebase. Phil Sturgeon has written up this post to show you exactly how.
A few people have asked me recently about setting up CodeIgniter to run accross multiple domains based on the same codebase. This can be handy for sites than run different databases for different geographical areas, all of which need the same code but different content. To get this working I took a little code from PyroCMS and modded a previous article "How to: Support multiple production environments in CodeIgniter" and found a relatively simple solution.
You'll need to modify a bit of code to get things working: changing up the config.php to look at the hostname, making a site constant and updating the database.php config file to configure connections for each of the site constant defined.
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| Handling Mouse Overs and Keyboard Events with the jQuery JavaScript Library |
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Welcome to the third part of an eight-part series introducing the jQuery JavaScript library. This series provides you with a quick overview of the most important features that come packaged with the jQuery JavaScript framework. You ll learn how to manipulate web pages via the DOM handle different mouse and keyboard events develop Ajax applications and create eye-popping effects....
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| Blue Parabola Blog: Magento Feature Analysis Series, Part 3: Catalog Browsing Offering |
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Matthew Turland has posted the third part of his series looking at the features Magento, a popular PHP-based e-commerce application, has to offer. This time the focus is on browsing the catalog of available items.
This post is the third part of a series covering the feature set of the Magento PHP-based e-commerce package. In particular, it will review the catalog browsing features. Some of the features in this area are restricted to the Enterprise Edition of Magento. As such, reviewing them required accessing the demo for that edition on the Magento web site.
There's a long list of features that make up this section including things like:
Layered / Faceted Navigation for Product Filtering in Categories
Static Block Tool to Create Category Landing Pages
Unique Design Per Product/Category
Configurable Search with Auto-Suggested Terms
Cross-sells, Up-sells, and Related Items
Product Listing in Grid or List Format
Breadcrumbs
Take a look at the rest of the post for more features and a summary of three larger issues he found when working with them.
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| Pulling Web Page Elements with the Blueprint CSS Framework |
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If you re a web designer who s seeking a comprehensive guide to the main features of the Blueprint CSS framework you ve come to the right place. Welcome to the final episode of a series that gives you a quick overview of Blueprint CSS framework. Comprised of seven friendly tutorials this series gets you started using this robust CSS library and shows you how to take advantage of its numerous capabilities by means of a great variety of code samples....
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| Brandon Savage's Blog: Where Multiple Inheritance Will Kill You |
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In this new post to his blog Brandon Savage takes a look at multiple inheritance in PHP applications - specifically where it could "kill you" if you're not careful.
This is a fantastic way to further encapsulate and abstract your code because it means you can define some base functionality and then later on extend that class to add new functionality and even override existing functionality to make the class specific. But this concept is a double-edged sword in PHP (and all other languages).
The problem lies in methods in classes that could be overriding parents and the sort of results that instance of might return in a multiple inheritance environment. He includes code snippets both illustrating the problem and showing a suggestion for how it could be avoided.
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| Vid Luther's Blog: Deploying Wordpress with Phing to the Rackspace Cloud |
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Vid Luther has a recent post over on his blog today about using Phing to deploy WordPress to the cloud, more specifically to the Rackspace Cloud Sites.
My last post about Wordpress and Capistrano made people ask why wasn't I using Phing, and staying within the PHP ecosystem. The answer was simple, I wanted to learn Ruby, and I wanted to learn Capistrano. The question kept nagging me though, so I decided to find out how easy would it be to duplicate this in PHP.
He lists some of his requirements (as laid out in his Capistrano build) like made over a secure connection and can work with the Rackspace Cloud Sites. He came up against a few issues - some dealing with the platform, another about the tools installed - but besides that, things got working quickly. He includes the XML configuration file he used for Phing to get it all working happily.
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| Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: Stubbing Hard-Coded Dependencies |
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Sebastian Bergmann has a new post to his blog (part of a series on testing techniques for testing that difficult code) about the hard-coded dependencies required by your code and how to stub them for easier testing.
A mock object can be used anywhere in the program where the program expects an object of the mocked class. However, this only works as long as the object can be passed into the context where the original object is used.
Ideally this wouldn't be a problem - handled correctly, dependency injection would make it a non-issue. But, because it has been known to happen, PHPUnit gives you the ability, via the set_new_overload method, to capture that object definition and mock it with a reference to another method in the test class.
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| Ibuildings techPortal: Surviving a Plane Crash |
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The Ibuildings techPortal has posted the latest episode of their Dutch PHP Conference 2009 podcast series, a session given by Peter Verhage on handling the ups and downs of server loads and traffic.
NU.nl is a well known news website in its homeland, The Netherlands, and is actively expanding into other countries. On an average day NU.nl will serve up 7 million page views; peak traffic days are more than triple that number. [...] In this [episode] we want to look at the front end that we architected for NU.nl, and how we designed the system to handle both regular traffic and peaks.
To listen you can either use the in-page player or you can grab the mp3 directly.
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| OurBlogLog.com: Joomla vs Drupal , The Sad Truth |
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New from OurBlogLog.com there's a new post that compares Joomla and Drupal based on their features, ease of use and extensibility.
I've had more than a few conversations recently about which CMS is better. From the Joomla camp I hear, "Joomla is easier. Joomla has a great user interface." From its competitor I hear, "Drupal is more flexible and it has tagging." It's the Pepsi versus Coke debate for open source CMSes.
For the two CMSes there's a list of the good and bad things about each - good on Joomla's side was the easy deployment and versioning of content, good for Drupal was its flexibility and the high profile sites that use it. On the bad side, Joomla has a limitation for one-site-one-install and limited permissions handling. Overall, though, the author found that they both had their strengths and weaknesses and that, if you're shopping around for a CMS, find what fits best for you and your organization.
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| IBM developerWorks: Python basics for PHP developers |
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On the IBM developerWorks site there's a recent article looking to help PHP developers bridge the gap to Python by teaching some of the beginning steps in this other, different sort of language.
This article gives you a bit of exposure to Python. It assumes that you have no knowledge of that programming language, so some of what you read here might seem a bit basic. It focuses on comparing and contrasting Python with PHP - not because one language is better than the other but because of a simple truth: It's often easier to learn new things by referring back to something you already know.
They start off by introducing the language and talking about the differences between them including the differing syntax, Python's concept of mutability/immutability and the non-positional argument handling. From there, it's all about the basics - making a sample script, using loops, working with strings, conditionals, lists and dictionaries. A full sample script shows you how to pull it all together to pull in a list of files and outputs basic information about them.
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| Web Development Blog: E-mail links, protective solutions against SPAM |
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In a recent post to the Web Development Blog they talks a look at some methods you can use on your site to help reduce the amount of spam sent to email addresses by protecting them from scripts that might harvest them right from the page.
There are lots of spam bots checking the Internet for email addresses on regular websites, forums, blog and mailing lists. Once caught by some spam bot your mailbox is in need of a strong spam filter or sometimes it might be better to use a new e-mail address. In this article we show you different ways, how you're able to show your e-mail address to human visitors and hide it for spam bots.
They give four solutions, some a bit more practical than others - using an image instead of the text-only version of the address, hiding the @ symbol, hiding it with PHP (converting it to ASCII) and using Javascript to handle it similarly.
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| Site News: Job Postings for the week of 03.08.2009 |
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Job postings for the past week:Job Posting: TEKsystems (Recruiter) Seeks PHP Developer (Las Colinas, TX)
Job Posting: Kodak Seeks PHP Developer (Stamford, CT)
Job Posting: StaffMagnet (Recruiter) Seeks PHP Developer (Gaithersburg, MD)
Job Posting: Hark & Company Seeks Web Architect/Developer (London, UK)
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| Tony Bibbs' Blog: MVCnPHP (A Framework) |
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Tony Bibbs has made a release of an MVC framework that's been a few years of his development time in the making - MVCnPHP.
I will start this blog entry by saying I like Zend Framework. I really do. However, the part of ZF I don't use is the MVC implementation. No, it's not bad. Actually it's a good implementation that is the product of a lot of hard work by Zenders and non-Zenders alike. I use bits and pieces of ZF in my PHP projects and, admittedly, Zend's MVC implementation never made the cut.
He decided a while back on his own implementation and has stuck with it over the years. He still uses the components of the Zend Framework but not the routing and model/view/controller setup of it all. Instead he's opted for his own MVCnPHP methods for his own applications. You can check out these resource for more information: a sample application, the user guide and, of course, the framework's download page.
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| David Goodwin's Blog: Storing PHP objects in a database (please no!) |
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David Goodwin has a suggestion for those developers that think storing objects in a database is a good idea - don't do it!
Short answer: DO NOT DO IT. Longer answer:....I hate seeing serialized PHP objects within a database.
Some of his reasons include:
It's difficult to index/search - you'll probably need to use a regexp.
PHP Specific - good luck doing much with the data in a.n.other language
If the objects are large, you're likely to have a text or a blob field - this will suck from a performance point of view (at least in MySQL)
Why bother storing serialized objects in a database - surely to the filesystem would be better?
Several opinions are expressed in the comments including some that agree with David and some that still defend the idea.
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| NETTUTS.com: Diving into PHP |
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On the NETUTS.com website they've posted a part of their "Dive into PHP" series (part thirteen) cross-posted from the ThemeForest blog (subscribe here). In this edition the vidcast looks at how to handle file uploads in PHP.
By posting short ten minute episodes, beginners can easily digest each lesson, rather than become overwhelmed with more information than their minds are able to consume. [...] In this lesson, you'll learn how to upload files, and how to use regular expressions to ensure that inappropriate file types aren't uploaded to your server.
You can follow along with the vidcast and check out the demo or just skip straight to the source code to get going right away. Links to some of the other video tutorials are also included for things like working with variables, regular expressions and getting started with MySQL.
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| Echolibre Blog: Customising Zend Framework Routing |
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On the echolibre blog J.D. has made a new post looking at Zend Framework routing and how you can customize it to get the user where they need to go.
I wanted to write a post that shows a few different ways to customise Zend Frameworks routing when you're using their MVC implementation. Most of this is covered in the documentation, but it can be a little difficult to dig out.
He starts with the normal routing setup (the standard /module/controller/action and /controller/action setups) and moves on to the "magic" - a way to have a standard "framework URL" without having to include an action. He sets up a route with a wildcard to catch anything for that controller and passes it off to a custom router that goes through the request values and returns the values as though they were formatted normally in the URL.
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| Christian Stocker's Blog: Upload Progress Meter for Windows - The next take |
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Christian Stocker has posted about "the next take" on the PHP upload progress meter extension - a new version that plays a bit nicer on Windows than before.
The uploadprogress extension for PHP never really worked on Windows and since I don't have a Windows development environment I could never do a proper analysis of the problem. Until this week, when Tomas Holusa sent me an email telling me about some VCWD_RENAME problems on Windows.
A patch that was submitted a while back confirmed the issue and a new patch was written and submitted to take care of the problem. You can try out the new extension on Windows with either the normal Wind32 build or Win32 nts build.
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| Juozas Kaziukenas' Blog: Debugging with FirePHP and Firebug |
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In this new post Juozas Kaziukenas takes a look at a very useful debugging tool that can help keep your debug messages and errors out of your page and into a proper debugger - FirePHP (an extension of Firebug).
One may debug his application with print(") statements all other the place or alert(") for JavaScript. Luckily some years ago Firebug extension for Firefox was introduced, which introduced (?) console. Console works absolutely the same as in Linux and can be used not only to execute commands, but receive information from various sources.
He shows what the output looks like both on the interface side (in the Firefox plugin) and in the HTTP headers that are sent back along with the web server's response. Some frameworks even have components that let you interface with it directly.
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