While PHP Frameworks have become quite popular with web developers over the last two years, they have their drawbacks. They can be bulky and/or bloated, bringing the simplest of tasks into a fold of dependencies and data calls. They can be difficult to administrate remotely – if you use a shared host, some command-line configurations options are immediately disqualified. You may just be looking for a helper library, but do not want to drag your application through the mud of an entire framework to get one piece of functionality. Continue reading
Extending HTML_QuickForm_Rule
HTML_QuickForm is a very popular PEAR library that eases form design for the web programmer. It consists of three separate but equally important parts – form components, form renderers, and form validators. The last of these three is the focus of this week’s tutorial.
Web programmers always have to be considerate of the security risks involved in web application design, and user input is one of the top priorities in application security. Thankfully, HTML_QuickForm makes validating forms a simple process, using object-oriented prinicples of inheritence while unifying client and server-side validation. Continue reading
The Minify Library
After last week’s post highlighting the YSlow Firefox extension, I’ve decided to follow up on the topic of best practices with a brief post on the Minify Library. The Library was discovered when one of my coworkers was tasked with reducing the http requests of our various sites. Minify takes cares of that, and much more! Continue reading
The YSlow Firefox Add-on
As I was working on editing the new theme for my blog, I downloaded the Firebug developer’s toolkit to inspect an HTML element on my screen. After installing Firebug I got a series of other Add-on recommendations, most of which were tools that embedded into the Firebug interface. Once such tool was called YSlow. Continue reading
All Work and No Play Makes Eric Wish He Could Post Here More
These past 3 months have been very exciting for me – I started a new job in Web Development working with a commercial open-source CMS by a company named NStein. We are currently in the 3.x branch of their software, aptly named WCM (Web Content Management…how creative…) 3.x is very extendable, but its out-of-the-box functionality is a bit…limited.
With 4.0 will come drag-and-drop design templates and customizeable dashboards for editors, along with other features even more tedious to the casual reader. As for the web dept., though, we are quite happy, and are looking forward to revamping our sites to utilize these features. Continue reading
Gentle Beginnings is live, but not quite finished!
The Gentle Beginnings web page, http://www.gentlebeginningsnj.com, is available to view now. It has been flushed of *most* of the Joomla content, so by the end no Joomla-related content will be viewable. Continue reading
Joomla site progress
I’ve probably covered about 85% of the necessary styles for my template, and now have a screenshot of the progress so far: Continue reading
