Archive for the ‘Lab’ Category

Class Loader

Monday, February 16th, 2009

I needed a class loader for my little framework as I dont want to include all the files in on every request which is what listing them in a long list of includes will do. So I checked out the PHP.net site which has this code sample. I used it ...

Mod_rewrite

Monday, February 16th, 2009

I wanted to start a small MVC framework to help build my next project. I needed to get mod_rewrite working and also build a simple class loader. For mod_rewrite I setup the following .htaccess file (xp.htaccess to get around Windows' filename issue) RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(php|css|js|gif|png|jpe?g)$ RewriteRule (.*)$ /index.php [L] Then in my dispatcher ...

Zend Framework

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Anthony suggested that I try out the Zend Framework. It's a pretty simple installation but I had a hard time findinga decent tutorial. The simple starter on the Zend site is set up to use SQL Lite and I just did not feel like installing and learning that at the ...

Autocomplete field with jQuery and PHP

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

For the recipe manager project I need to allow the entering of ingredients that the system does not know about. I decided to use an auto complete field to allow users to easily see what was already in the system. If the ingredient does not exist then the one they ...