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.
ThinkRobot
9May
2009
2009
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 way. (more…)
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26Apr
2009
2009
Week of the Month in Mysql
SELECT WEEK(my_date_field,5) -
WEEK(DATE_SUB(my_date_field, INTERVAL DAYOFMONTH(my_date_field)-1 DAY),5)+1
22Apr
2009
2009
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 into practice any Zend newcomer can run into several problems. (more…)
13Apr
2009
2009
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 URL and adds some punctuation at the end since the punctuation gets captured as part of the link.
