Archive for November, 2007

Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 4

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

As I promised in part 3 of this series, this piece will be about user registration and login with all that it brings with it in the form of validation and so on.... Read More

Ajax, ZF and Smarty feed reader: part 1

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

In this series I will walk you through the code of a site that uses only Ajax and Scriptaculous to handle it’s completely windowed interface. Making an interface like this is not really good design, it’s only done here for the sake of teaching. It is kinda cool though. Especially if you have a big screen.... Read More

Dynamics and Procedural Animation in Flash

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

This resource is provided as is, hopefully it will be useful for some Flash developer. Most probably it will just be a curiosity. The nerd factor is very high.... Read More

Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 3

Monday, November 5th, 2007

In this part we will take a look at how the main content area can change based on user actions. This is basically done in the same way we display menus with the difference that we have to give insert_item() dynamic data.... Read More

Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 2

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Before we begin I want to stress that this is not a newbie tutorial. If the current level is too much for you I recommend these tutorials:
For the Zend Framework
For Smarty... Read More

Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 1

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Update: Since writing this series I have chosen to not work with Zend DB anymore, I’m using PHP Doctrine instead, I have also thrown out Smarty in favor of H2O. Doctrine is a proper ORM which is far superior in functionality to Zend DB, and H2O feels like a much cleaner and more modern templating solution than Smarty. ... Read More

Loading images into Flash dynamically from a Smarty template

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Flash Source Movie... Read More