Monthly Archives: January 2010

Using Zend Framework validators – Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Stoimen

What are validators? In very very breve these are methods which can validate some data, usually user input, against some specific rules. Imagine there’s a web form that is always checked for empty fields or some fields that may contain … Continue reading →

Posted in zend framework | Tagged Computer programming, Computing, Integrated development environments, PHP programming language, Software engineering, Software framework, Technology/Internet, Validator, Web 2.0, Web application frameworks, web form, XML, zend framework, Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists | Leave a comment

CSS default position value

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Stoimen

position:absolute? Recently I was working on a problem where some DOM elements inherited the absolute position from their ancestors. Well this is pretty rare, but however it happens from time to time. If you’re wandering, as I was, how to … Continue reading →

Posted in css | Tagged Cascading Style Sheets, DOM, Web design | Leave a comment

YouTube and Vimeo goes HTML5 with video tag usage! Catch them up!

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Stoimen

What better example than that coming both from YouTube and Vimeo. Although video tag is not supported except under Safari and Chrome, that’s the future everyone’s going to embed sooner or later. And if these “big players” are going that … Continue reading →

Posted in web development | Tagged Bart Allen, Computing, Google Chrome, html, HTML 5, player, safari, Technology/Internet, Video hosting, Vimeo, Web 2.0, web developers, World Wide Web, YouTube, YouTube Inc | Leave a comment

Zend_Date – make it work and benefit with locales

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Stoimen

Although the documentation of Zend Framework is one of the most well structured documentation I’ve ever read it happened to me to stuck into it. And that happened exactly when I tried to use the date component of ZF – … Continue reading →

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Array merge in JavaScript

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Stoimen

What makes array to merge in JavaScript? Actually there aren’t so many array functions in JavaScript. As you know you can join, sort, etc. which methods are pretty basic. What I’d like to do is something similar to PHPs’ array_merge … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript, micro tutorial | Tagged array, Computer programming, Computer science, Computing, javascript, JavaScript programming language, Sorting algorithms, Trim | 1 Comment