I have had a few requests to get this second part of my Zend ACL tutorial published. I apologise for the long period between part one and part two, my life has been a bit hectic of late, and I just haven’t had time. I will try not to make you wait as long for [...]
In this tutorial series, I will guide you through the steps required to replicate my implementation of a database driven Zend ACL. The tutorial will cover the following topics;
Zend Framework provides a brilliant tool for controlling access levels to your web application. This tool is called Zend_Acl. It consists of a handful of classes for generating roles and resources. These resources can then be allowed and/or dis-allowed on a per role basis. Roles can also inherit each other which makes for quite a [...]
If you are getting stung by large bandwidth bills because someone is hot linking your images, copy the following lines in to your .htaccess file.
Here is a quick tutorial on how to integrate Smarty 3 with Zend Framework. I’m currently using Zend Framework 1.10, but this integration should work for all versions of Zend Framework from 1.8 and above. With Smarty, I’m using Smarty 3 RC4. There are several different ways of integrating Smarty with Zend Framework, I find [...]
Ok, so I haven’t written much on here lately, I have been way too busy. I still monitor the traffic quite often and although it’s not a brilliant blog, and the content is out of date, I still get a steady stream of traffic, thanks to google.
A client asked me to do so work on their website to prevent people from hot linking their images, as they were using up most of their bandwidth allowance and had just been dealt a hefty bill, for extra bandwidth used.
The jQuery thickbox plugin is fantastic. All you have to do is include the js file, and give the elements that require a jQuery thickbox, a class of thickbox. Like below;
I came across a problem with Thickbox today. It just wasn’t working properly in IE. Basically I had ajaxed content loading up inside a Thickbox. When the link was clicked, the Thickbox loaded but no content was displayed. All was fine in trusty old Firefox, so what was IE’s problem?
