Comments for Lively Web Design - Blog

Comment on My Favorite Firefox Add-Ons by Scott Lively

Scott Lively — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:14:13 +0000

I found a great Add-On recently that will hopefully save me a ton of money on printer ink. It is Print Edit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-edit/ Print Edit allows editing of the web page content while in Print Preview mode. Editing the web page prior to printing can compact the layout and remove unwanted content such as adverts, sidebars and blank pages. Any element can be formatted, hidden or deleted.

Comment on Testing Your PHP Knowledge by Ravi Gehlot

Ravi Gehlot — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:46:20 +0000

Excellent article. Thumbs up. I share the same thoughts as all of you. Imagine if they were to test us on ANY word of the English vocabulary. Do you know the meaning of the following words without using a dictionary: Erinaceous, Depone, Mesonoxian and such? It is insane what they try to tests on those assessments. There are better ways to test a programmers knowledge…give him an IDE and ask him to write a piece of code for you. That would be one way to test his knowledge. Give him a problem and ask him to come up with an algorithm to solve the issue…let him use php.net and nothing else. That would be another way to test someone’s knowledge. But trying to get us to “memorize” stuff is insane. It’s like telling a child not to learn but memorize…for as long as that child can recite everything, he/she will make it through.

Comment on Testing Your PHP Knowledge by Karl

Karl — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:19:01 +0000

Just about to sit a test for PHP programming!!!
Im in my 40s so a test is not something i have done for over 20 years, normally a client will ask for a website and i will build it.
Yes i use PHP and many other languages that get integrated in to the site. I like many others that are self taught will use the online recourses if i have a problem to solve and then once its done will remember i have used that code before and for time saving will use it again and again.

I have looked at many different online tests and to be honest i got a range of 66% to 95% some function I don’t use so got them wrong but if i needed to use it then php.net would be a good place to start. Might just be me but memorising all the functions seems impossible how do you brush up on all these skills

Comment on Zend Framework Pros And Cons by Scott Lively

Scott Lively — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:15:05 +0000

@Neo85 Yes, ZF really has a loosely coupled use-at-will architecture. For example, if you just want to use the framework’s code to validate an email address then all you have to do is include the code from the Zend_Validate directory and then require_once ‘Zend/Validate/EmailAddress.php’; You don’t need ALL of the files from the full library.

What is the minimum number of files needed to start a small web app? That depends on whether you’re using the MVC design pattern and/or what other components of the ZF you plan on using. I find it easier to just download the full library and use ZF’s autoloading to include the files I need. I wouldn’t worry about the size of the library as it’s not really that big, maybe 30MB.

Comment on Zend Framework Pros And Cons by Neo85

Neo85 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:12:18 +0000

“It has a loosely coupled use-at-will architecture. ” really?
So whats the minimum number of files needed to start a small web app?

Comment on Installing PEAR After Zend Server by Scott Lively

Scott Lively — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:04:26 +0000

@Virgilio and @rss Check this out and modify accordingly… http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.php

Comment on Installing PEAR After Zend Server by rss

rss — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:22:04 +0000

After step 2 i get this:
Starting installation …
Loading zlib: ok

Bootstrapping Installer……………….
Bootstrapping PEAR.php…………(remote) “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

An Exception Has Occurred

Unknown location: /pear/pear-core/branches/PEAR_1_4/PEAR.php

HTTP Response Status

404 Not Found

ok
Bootstrapping Archive/Tar.php…………(remote)

…………………………..**************………….

pl suggest something i ma also using win 7 64 bit, additionall a window pops up and says “ICLIT09B.dll is missing”.
please help

Comment on Installing PEAR After Zend Server by Virgilio

Virgilio — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:01:04 +0000

After step 2 i get this:
Starting installation …
Loading zlib: ok

Bootstrapping Installer……………….
Bootstrapping PEAR.php…………(remote) “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

An Exception Has Occurred

Unknown location: /pear/pear-core/branches/PEAR_1_4/PEAR.php

HTTP Response Status

404 Not Found

ok
Bootstrapping Archive/Tar.php…………(remote)

Comment on Testing Your PHP Knowledge by VonWrinkle

VonWrinkle — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:57:41 +0000

Just took the same test… 37 questions… identical. I took another assessment for CSS and found a bunch of bogus questions in it as well. Who makes up these questions anyway? From what I’ve seen, I agree with you that 90% of the questions aren’t used in “every day programming”…

… and robert – I’m with you too. NOBODY programs from memory. We all have references up and running.

Luckily, I was able to use my references on my assessment… and am very glad for it.

I had an interview with another “tech” company that was more for SEO/Internet Marketing than PHP programming. They said the job was only 30% programming and yet, I had to do an assessment with 2 other “programming types” in a meeting room at a WHITE BOARD. I knew my chances were of getting the job were zip as soon as they started asking for answers to programming questions using nothing but the white board… FOR an SEO/Internet Marketing job? … and I have a master’s in Internet Marketing. Talk about a good way to lose good people.

Thanks for the article

Comment on Integrating CKEditor And CKFinder With Zend Framework by Scott Lively

Scott Lively — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:47:26 +0000

@Joey That is a great point to use a view helper for each instance of the CKEditor that you are creating. Any time you see code being repeated means that there’s probably a way to refactor that out. Thanks for sharing!

Comment on DOCTYPE And Zend_Form by Scott Lively

Scott Lively — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:44:45 +0000

@Joey

1. I agree regarding the short tags but I’m lazy. If it was a big deal porting then I’d just use a find and replace and that would be fixed in about two seconds.

2. Good point. Thanks for sharing that.

3 & 4. You’re basically saying the same thing here and you are correct.

I think the main point of the article was that by declaring your DOCTYPE and using Zend_Form there isn’t a need to worry about whether or not you need to close your form tags and ZF will do it automatically for you provided you bootstrap your layout before declaring your DOCTYPE.

Thanks for the comments!

Comment on DOCTYPE And Zend_Form by Joey

Joey — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:46:48 +0000

1. You should never, ever use the short opening tags and shorthand echo its a no-no since the code could be moved and the server php.ini might not be so friendly to it on the new server

2. You can also set the doctype in the application ini and save the bootstrapping.

3. It should also be mentioned that if the form you are trying to validate is behind a secure area (behind a login) then the w3c validator will not validate the page.

4. If the content within the form is conditional, or if the page itself has conditional markup (Acl filtered) the validator will ONLY validate the page as a guest, not as a logged in user, which means the page may be valid as a guest, and still fail validation for a logged in user

Comment on Integrating CKEditor And CKFinder With Zend Framework by Joey

Joey — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:38:31 +0000

Nice tutorial but I much prefer to set up a view helper that allows injection of ckedtior upon any textarea from the controller using a switch based approach. This allows the use of Zend_Form for form creation and of course form inheritance while still allowing the use of Ckedtior in the view. In my current implementation I can choose 1 of 3 editors on the fly simply by either using Dojo editor from the form class or by passing a string identifier for the editor I wish to use from the controller, to the view (i.e. $this->view->editor = ‘ckeditor’) then checking to see which editor is being set for the current action and text area. This allows me to use say tiny_mce for one field and ckeditor for another and Dojo for another. Not that someone would really need to do this, but hey… I like options Happy coding

Comment on Integrating CKEditor And CKFinder With Zend Framework by Scott Lively

Scott Lively — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:05:24 +0000

@Windy Please see my next article which is CKEditor Configuration. Hopefully, this will give some more guidance. To answer your question specifically, first look at your view script where you instantiate your CKEditor. Change this code…

CKEDITOR.replace( ‘editor1′ ); // where editor1 is the name of your textarea

to this…

CKEDITOR.replace( ‘editor1′,
{
filebrowserBrowseUrl:’baseUrl();?>/includes/ckfinder/ckfinder.html?Type=Files’,
filebrowserImageBrowseUrl:’baseUrl();?>/includes/ckfinder/ckfinder.html?Type=Images’,
filebrowserFlashBrowseUrl:’baseUrl();?>/includes/ckfinder/ckfinder.html?Type=Flash’,
filebrowserUploadUrl:’baseUrl();?>/includes/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.php?command=QuickUpload&type=Files’,
filebrowserImageUploadUrl:’baseUrl();?>/includes/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.php?command=QuickUpload&type=Images’,
filebrowserFlashUploadUrl:’baseUrl();?>/includes/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.php?command=QuickUpload&type=Flash’
});

Hope that helps!

Comment on Integrating CKEditor And CKFinder With Zend Framework by Windy

Windy — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:59:13 +0000

Thanks for your tutorial. I I’ve been able to integrate CKEditor in my ZF application. But I have a problem. When I want to insert a picture to my article content by “Image” button, “Image Properties” window appears but “Browser Server” does not appear.
I downloaded your copy of project and it has same problem, too.
How can i solve it?
This is my picture of “Image Properties” window:
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj21/deadwind88/error.jpg
Thanks!

Comment on Testing Your PHP Knowledge by Rm

Rm — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:19:15 +0000

looks like questions I had on a test I just took..

Comment on Testing Your PHP Knowledge by robert

robert — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:41:53 +0000

I think testing a programmer without resources is like testing how good a cook is without fire or a knife. I don’t know about other programmers, but I constantly have PHP / library references up when I’m programming.

It’s ridiculous. A company here where I live recently lost their last programmer and are testing with questions similar to these.

How would one prepare for it? Memorize all the functions? I have no idea.

Thanks for the article.

Comment on Integrating CKEditor And CKFinder With Zend Framework by FCKeditor Zend Form Integration | Website Factors

FCKeditor Zend Form Integration | Website Factors — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:31:53 +0000

[...] spent what felt like hours today trying to get this working. I searched Google and found this and this, both of which were very helpful. However, I just wanted a quick [...]

Comment on CKEditor Configuration by Scott Lively

Scott Lively — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:37:39 +0000

@andy

1. The config.js file comes default with the CKEditor download looking something like…

CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function( config )
{
// Define changes to default configuration here. For example:
// config.language = ‘fr’;
// config.uiColor = ‘#AADC6E’;
}

So, yes put all of your custom config within the curly braces.

2. editor1 is the instance of your CKEditor object declared with the id in the textarea element within your view script.

3. Sorry, no idea on the jQuery question. Perhaps someone else could comment on that one.

Comment on CKEditor Configuration by andy

andy — Wed, 11 May 2011 22:01:52 +0000

Hi. Thanks for your post. I have a few questions:
1) when adding the toolbar definition to the config.js file, do you place the definition within the CKEDITOR.config ={} block with everything else or outside?
2) with your

“CKEDITOR.replace( ‘editor1′,
{
toolbar : ‘MyBasic’,
}); ”

example, what is ‘editor1′?
3) I’m trying to use the jQuery plugin. Is there a different way to define attributes (like which toolbar to use) just for the jQuery plugin?

Thanks for your time.