Darren Beale

Symfony and AJAX

Sunday, November 19, 2006

I’ve been playing with the AJAX support in Symfony this weekend and I’m blown away by how easy it is. Today I put together a detailed/summary view switcher for a list of items coming from a database with a (script.aculo.us) fade in/out effect and I didn’t need to write one line of JavaScript. Now that’s what [...]

Remote PHP debugging

Thursday, September 28, 2006

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After 8 or so years of being a professional web developer I today finally cracked using a debugger with PHP. I’ve been a long suffering PHPEdit user from since it was open source and into having to pay (twice) for a licence. Unfortunately I started getting very irritated by some annoying and performance degrading bugs in [...]

Emulating PHP’s substr() with Smarty [sort of]

Thursday, September 7, 2006

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Today I had a requirement to strip off the first 9 digits from a string from within a Smarty template. The system using Smarty is *totally* locked down so no access to plugins or using php functions as modifiers so I could not simply do $string=substr($string,9); or even {assign var=”shorterThing” value=$thing|substr:9} In the end I used [...]

Midlands interweb groups

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

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I’ve only been living in the midlands for a few months now but have already found two promising groups: The Multi Pack and PHP West Midlands. Multipack seems to be a bit more designery but they are organised, have a great website and put on meet-ups. It seems that some of the organisers are also involved [...]

Siftware is go

Friday, July 28, 2006

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Well we’ve unpacked all of our boxes (apart from all of the ones in my office it seems), put as many again in the loft and all members of family Beale are settling nicely into our new life. I’m particularly liking the ability to have breakfast, lunch and dinner with the kids especially owing to [...]

Web Design

Saturday, July 1, 2006

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I launched my new web design company today, Siftware. Based in Upton-upon-Severn I shall be doing the same work as I was when running web design company Exponetic, but keeping things much smaller so I have more time to spend with my family. You may wish to take a look at my freelance web design cv credentials. [...]

Sad PHP poem

Monday, June 26, 2006

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Disclaimer: You have to be a geek to find the following even mildly interesting or heaven forbid, amusing. List: php-general Subject: [PHP] Sad PHP Poem From: “Martin Alterisio” Date: 2006-06-26 4:25:20 A sad poem of an algorithm where [...]

Enabling spell checking within FCKeditor

Sunday, April 23, 2006

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CMS Made Simple uses the great GPL WYSIWYG editor FCKeditor and I noticed this morning that it has a spell checking facility. To get it to work, I: Installed aspell on my dev server: [code]apt-get install aspell Reading Package Lists… Done Building Dependency Tree… Done The following extra packages will be installed: aspell-bin aspell-en dictionaries-common libaspell15 Suggested packages: aspell-doc spellutils [...]

WordPress Widgets

Saturday, April 8, 2006

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I’m a developer, I don’t mind - in fact, no, I *like* - coding but when it comes to doing stuff on my own site I’m rather hesitant and I prefer things that Just Work out of the box. I installed a new theme K2 last night and whilst it looks good I did have to [...]

The Zend Framework - part 2

Friday, April 7, 2006

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I’ve added a second part to my of my Using the Zend Framework over in my How-To section. http://bealers.com/how-to/using-the-zend-framework-part-2/ Related: Part 1

Tag Archive | "PHP"

Symfony and AJAX

Remote PHP debugging

Emulating PHP’s substr() with Smarty [sort of]

Midlands interweb groups

Siftware is go

Web Design

Sad PHP poem

Enabling spell checking within FCKeditor

WordPress Widgets

The Zend Framework - part 2

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