Category Archives: micro tutorial

Iterate over YouTube Channel with Zend_Gdata_YouTube

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Stoimen

Read YouTube’s Feed in Zend App The task is to read the entire Gdata from a YouTube’s channel. It may sound easy, but as you may know Gdata is based on the Atom publishing protocol, and it naturally gives you … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, zend framework | Tagged API, Atom, Atom publishing protocol, Computing, controller, GData, Gdata services, google, Google Inc., http, PHP programming language, player, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, Web application frameworks, web development, World Wide Web, YouTube Inc, zend, zend framework | 1 Comment

Setting a Zend Framework _redirect Referer

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Stoimen

Seems to be impossible, just because the only parameters you can set are far less than setting a referrer. Thus you’ve to rely on your browser capabilities. However the most reliable way is to redirect with referrer in mind. Something … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, zend framework | Tagged controller, HTTP referrer, Hypertext, Parameter, URI scheme, URL, web development, World Wide Web | 2 Comments

How to Sanitize User Input in PHP?

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Stoimen

It’s a question almost every PHP developer asks yourself. By me the most simple way to sanitize the user input is to save everything in the database with no loosing of tags or whatever HTML markup and than on displaying … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP | Tagged communication, Computing, Form, html, Markup languages, PHP, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, World Wide Web | 3 Comments

Custom Routes with Zend_Controller_Router_Route

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Stoimen

Rewrite The Url? Actually this is really a common task to do. You’ve to rewrite the url to be more “user friendly”. To be more clear I’ll give you an example. Let’s imagine you have a index controller and an … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, zend framework | Tagged Apache HTTP Server, Bracket, Computing, controller, Front Controller pattern, index controller, Latin alphabet, PHP programming language, Punctuation, Typography, Web 2.0, Web application frameworks, World Wide Web, zend framework | 4 Comments

Zend_Http_Client and Case Sensitivity

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Stoimen

Recently I posted about Zend_Http_Client and the ability to check a request HEAD or GET. It is, as everything in Zend Framework, extremely easy to adopt and use, but today I experienced some “strnage” problems! As I wrote some lines … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, zend framework | Tagged Computing, http, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Network protocols, PHP, PHP programming language, request HEAD, World Wide Web | 3 Comments