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What I want to aggregate are Swedish web development and web entrepeneur blogs. I like the planet-planet concept that for example planet-php use. (Though I don't think planet-php use python...) Conveniently I had this idn domain, översikt.se, lying around which I haven't used up until now. As is normal nowadays (for me at least) I used Zend Framework to build the site. It was the first time I used Zend_Feed class. I works like a charm.

The third part of an excelent tutorial on creating an ajax chat system using MySQL and the Zend Framework.

In this article I describe how to use Zend framework components in a CakePHP application by means of building a very simple CakePHP application using Zend_Service_Flickr, a component for accessing the Flickr web services.

As you most likely know, I have been working with Zend on the Zend Framework for a couple of months now. The bulk on my tasks there have been working on the Zend_Service* set of classes. This includes the Amazon, Flickr and Yahoo! APIs. So, as I'm getting more and more into flickr (see http://flickr.com/dshafik for my photo stream) I have been exploring and I saw a very neat set of images which were composites of 50 random flickr images for a given tag. Well, I liked this enough, I decided that I could do it on-the-fly using PHP, ImageMagick and of course... the Zend Framework.

I've been experimenting with various pieces of the Zend Framework to get a better idea of how they work. I decided to put together a simple project using a few of them. What I wanted to do was create a class that allows the user to get stock quotes (and other stock information) from Yahoo! Finance, modeled after the Zend_Service_* classes.

I posted this rather lengthy argument in the Zend fw-core mailing list after I learned that the Zend_Filter_Input component had been dropped from the Zend Framework. I have used this component extensively in various projects, and had written up a contribution to the Zend DevZone that described using a bootstrap script to block direct access by your developers to the superglobal user input arrays ($_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, etc).

Since the first time I really saw and understood what Flash was and did, I've been jealous of what Flash designers could do. Beyond just the cute animations for banner ads and games, Flash designers have always had a much more fine-grained control on their environment that HTML allows for. Besides my innate inability to design anything like a usable interface, the main drawback that has kept me from exploiting Flash is I never could get my head around the "Movie Timeline" metaphor for programming. As we say back home, "It just ain't right."

Looked at Zend and although neat, overkill for my own purposes. I need more of a validation solution than a filtering anyways. Meaning I will test for validity and fail to continue if it's bad. I guess, except when validating TEXTAREA in which case it's prolly a lot faster/easier to just strip HTML or convert to entities. Didn't think of that one until now. Anyways, smartest, leanest filtering solution...why not just store an array of regex in a hash array and pull that regex into a preg_* and be done with it??? Any other techniques or solutions (other than Zend or Regex) which you feel are worth mentioning?

As Davey Shafik noted recently, he and I have been working together on some web services for the Zend Framework. In doing so, I've become very familiar with PHP 5's Reflection API, and am coming to love it.

I was wondering about how to extend a singleton class such that you could retrieve the new class when retrieving the singleton later. In particular, Zend_Controller_Front is a singleton, but what if I want to extend it later? A number of plugins in the Zend Framework, particularly view helpers and routing functionality, make use of the singleton; would I need to alter all of these later so I could make use of the new subclass ?