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My first Symfony 2 Web Application – The Journey – Installation

Happy New Year, 2013, its finally here … Well in 2012, I should say I had Symfony 2 envy, almost akin to a high school crush, so after suffering in silence for so long I have finally decided to jump in with both feet. I am developing a simple website which is esentially a set […]

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Display Contents of Different File Formats Word/Excel/Powerpoint/PDF/RTF as HTML

This is a typical problem which I also raised on Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11061929/php-extract-text-from-different-file-formats-word-excel-powerpoint-pdf-rtf#comment14475398_11061929), but there seemed no single resource around the web to solve this particular problem, so since I have solved it I thought it would make sense to provide an approach and a solution, it can be refined better with time Problem: We have […]

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PHP Wishes 2012 – Interfaces and Standard Web Application Project Layout

Since Santa is listening, below are my PHP wishes for 2012: Standard Interfaces like Java which are used by many projects so that developers and architects focus on implementation Standardized Web Application Project Layout just like J2EE Web Application Directory Structure (http://java.sun.com/blueprints/code/projectconventions.html) or Linux Standard Base (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base) I am learning Symfony 2 over the next coupla […]

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Zend Framework Hidden Gems – Zend_Measure

Just had a bit of a problem today dealing with displaying file sizes of uploaded reports in an application we are upgrading using Zend Framework. When the files are uploaded, the file sizes are stored in bytes, but for display we need to show the sized in KB as the typical file size is between […]

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Zend Framework – Auto Loading and Sessions

The journey is still going on, the porting still happening. So what happens when the you need to setup up an autoloader so that you can remove all the include, include_once, require, require_once calls in the different classes. It is also necessary in cases where you need to instantiate a class based on a combination […]

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Zend Framework Setup

Like all things to be done, this should be the simplest, just drag, drop and boom a page would automagically appear. Well that only happens in fairy tales, and it seems that we are in the real world over here. The setup seems to be fairly easy, download a copy of the framework, unzip and […]

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Zend Framework – The Journey

The development team that I lead is standardizing on Zend Framework (http://www.framework.zend.com) as a development platform. This category of posts will be dealing with the issues that we are running into, and how we are solving them, to help alleviate other people’s pain. We have reviewed a number of platforms, but essentially narrowed it down to […]

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Google Need for “Page” Speed – The Web Developer’s Arsenal

Google the king of search has made the speed of websites and page loading a key actor in ranking. This coupled with the need to use 3rd party frameworks for front end development, like JQuery, MooTools, Scriptalicious, Yahoo YUI, to support the multitiude of browsers has a larger burden web developers. In true fashion however, […]

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