I’ve been looking for something like this for a while: Fitzgerald.
Handles routing, rendering and all the other basics, small size and very easy to use.
A PHP version of Sinatra
17th Aug 2010
Posts Tagged ‘PHP’
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SimpleXML and Dashes
26th Jan 2010Dash in XML tag name? (
<like-this>). When fetching simply enclose in curly brackets and quotes like so:{'like-this'}. -
PHP HTTP headers to force file save
10th Nov 2009header('Content-type: application/pdf'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');
Replacing whatever the filetype/filename you want to force to browser to save as.
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PHP and Date Errors
17th Sep 2009If your use of the
date()or similar function in PHP is throwing errors you may need to set your timezone in the php.ini file. Simply change it to you time zone, like so:date.timezone = "Europe/London"
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PHP5, GD and Mac’s
15th Jul 2009Mac OSX has a handy installation of apache 2, PHP and all the good ness that comes with it. However, for reasons that escape me, it doesn’t have GD or any image manipulation library installed. So, to fix it I:
- Found a new, handily packaged version of PHP5 for the mac from here
- Commented out the PHP5 module in
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf - Doubled clicked the package and installed
- Restarted Apache 2, just in case
And all was well – I now have the GD library.
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CodeIgniter Framework
6th Mar 2009I’ve looked around again at the different PHP frameworks hat exist and have found my new favourite: CodeIgniter.
I’ve tried using cakePHP before, and yes, it does have some pretty good documentation and does work well at some tasks like getting data out of your database very easily. I liked it, but could never get around the fact that all the database and MVC stuff had to conform to certain rules. CodeIgniter is a little bit different: you choose everything – do you want to use a database? Do you want to use a model? What do you want to call it?
I find the flexibility much better; Just enough abstraction to be useful, but not too much as to be more confusing than helpful. Documentation is brilliant, with near enough everything described in detail and there are plenty of very helpful tutorials around to get you started. Overall it’s fast, easy to use and has plenty of supporting libraries that make putting things together a doddle.