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Validating Identical Passwords with the Zend Framework

Published: September 06, 2010

When creating user registration and password-related models you’ll likely need an easy way to compare the user’s chosen and confirmed passwords. Yet despite the Zend Framework having long supported over two dozen input validation features, it wasn’t particularly easy to compare input associated with two different form fields without breaking tier separation best practices. That all changed with the Zend Framework 1.10.5 release, which finally added support for this useful feature.

Zend Framework Tip - Getting Controller and Action Names

Published: August 23, 2010

Ever wanted to programmatically know the names of the currently executing Zend Framework controller and action? Read this short-and-sweet blog entry to find out how.

New PHPBuilder.com Tutorial: Introducing ExpressionEngine 2

Published: August 03, 2010

In the latest installment of my ongoing PHPBuilder.com series, I review some of ExpressionEngine 2’s new and interesting features.

New Developer.com Tutorial: Building a URL Shortener with jQuery, PHP, and MySQL

Published: August 03, 2010

In the latest installment of my ongoing Developer.com series, you’ll learn how to create a URL shortening service similar to Bit.ly using jQuery, PHP, and MySQL.

New Internet.com Video: Processing Form Input with PHP

Published: August 03, 2010

In my latest Internet.com video installment, you’ll learn how to properly and securely process HTML form input using PHP.

Video Tutorial: Connecting to Twitter Using the Zend_Service_Twitter Component

Published: August 03, 2010

In my latest Internet.com video installment, you’ll learn how to use the Zend Framewrk’s Zend_Service_Twitter component to both post entries to the service as well as receive a list of the your Twittersphere’s latest updates.

E-Commerce Made Easy with FoxyCart

Published: July 21, 2010

In a recent PHPBuilder article I mentioned the challenges I had been facing in regards to finding a capable content management system which was extensible enough to manage multimedia content in ways which stretched beyond the features typically bundled into such systems. As that article documents, the solution I chose was ExpressionEngine, and three months after the article’s publication and a recent very successful website relaunch I’m pleased to report that this decision remains decisively without regrets.

Refactor Your Web Site Database with MySQL’s Stored Procedures and Views

Published: July 20, 2010

MySQL stored procedures and views can not only go a long way towards separating the logic and domain model, but they also can easily be integrated into PHP. This article introduces stored procedures and views, and shows you how to use them within your PHP code.

Create Tag Clouds with the Zend Framework’s Zend_Tag_Cloud Component

Published: July 20, 2010

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create your own tag clouds using the Zend Framework’s Zend_Tag_Cloud component, which you can use to tag up every conceivable part of your website, from products to blog posts. This component is a native part of the Zend Framework, meaning if you already use the Zend Framework to power your website, integrating tag cloud capabilities will be trivially easy.

Simple User Authentication with Apache and MySQL

Published: July 20, 2010

In this article I’ll show you how to implement both of these authentication approaches using nothing more than the Apache Web Server’s native capabilities. The first approach can be implemented in mere minutes using a text file and a few command-line calls. The second approach is a tad more involved, requiring a bit of additional server configuration and a MySQL database, although you’ll gain some additional flexibility along the way.

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