Update: Since the below piece was written I’ve ported the little framework to H2O instead, H2O is a cleaner alternative to Smarty.... Read More

I’m a bit rusty, after scouring the Doctrine manual for the import functions I found a script of my own that I totally had forgotten:... Read More

I just had to convert a lot of xls files to csv, too many to even contemplating doing it manually. I started looking for a solution and found a positive evaluation of PHP-ExcelReader.... Read More

The code documented here was originally posted as a single page as is. It just didn’t feel right, it felt lazy and not what this site is about, which is some kind of commentary or notes even though it’s not always extensive, so here you are, the verbose version.... Read More

I just found myself wishing for automatic CRUD, for quick and simple administrative tasks, as it turned out a very easy thing to add. The first thing we have to do is move the label selection from having to be explicitly declared in the insert/update form - like we are doing now - to the model:... Read More

I just realized that the blog just passed the one year mark. It’s been a blast!... Read More

I had to start covering various Doctrine snippets for future reference. This post will be updated with more of them as they appear.... Read More

I’ve wanted to do automatic trackbacking by linking to posts that are linking to any given article of mine, for quite some time now.... Read More

A friend just needed help, he wants people to be able to put the YouTube insert code into a database. However it seems that there are some display related things in there he can live without that people might mess with and of course we don’t want that.... Read More

Things are starting to become more and more feature complete. Let’s look at how to implement general search and pagination. In the Product model:... Read More