Archive for the 'PHP' Category

Generating permalinks

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

We’ve all been there - SEO can be quite a pain in the ass when you’re competing against others for exposure. Turns out, much of the tedious content optimization can be resolved in the development phase, using nice and descriptive URLs.

Back to basics: templating with helpers

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

If you’re like me (eg. lazy), you’ll have probably tried to make your code as efficient as possible, when it comes to generating output code. And in some cases, you can’t get around declaring your own functions to do your bidding. That’s where helpers come in.

Just in: Symfony Control Panel re-released

Friday, January 5th, 2007

If you’re familiar with the 0.6.3+ release of Symfony, you may have heard of/used the control panel, which was previously available for use only on localhost. It did feature a lot of CLI alternatives, but frankly, I found the console to be a much better alternative. But with the new release, Control Panel is back, […]

Making your life easier with Factory design patterns

Friday, January 5th, 2007

This time round, I’d like to share a quick tip to those that may not be aware of how to simplify common tasks, such as fetching a specific group of entries within a table.