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In one of my phtml scripts it could look like:

And it refers to the users name of the person who made an entry in my registry. Now this might not be the typical case, as this is limited to only one node per register. You would instead set up node to be an array and loop through it with a foreach for example.

Register is setup in the controller, and this is how I access the deep nested information I need. Rather then using arrays that are deep and not very understandable, or by giving an object 100 variables, such as $register->user_name, I prefer using an object for that which contains all information nesesary.

It should be added that this could be an potential improvement if you are working with a designer that knows just enough php to use your code and slightly modify it to make some tiny changes. For example knows that within these something is displayed, and can then find out by looking at $node->user->name to knos what data is shown.

Although much time has been spent on my iPad, there has been a lot of exercising done as well, as I bought this new OCZ NIA device, which enables me to work my computer by pure brainwaves. It does sound like star wars, and it probably is, as I’ve spent some time now trying to understand it, however I am still far away from mastering it, even just slightly.

I did a bit of research (google) and couldn’t find anyone who really mastered this device, however I did realize the original use and why it was developed. Purely for the ones that had lost arms or were unable to control the arms to use a computer.

So my experience is so far that the device acts totally random, but I have had some good results some times, when I feel relaxed and not very excited. My results are greatly decresing when I have people in my surroundings, especially when they are moving around and I cant fully focus on my own.

This said, I do need more practise before I can give an valid opinion, and describe the product as is. Now what I can say is that; don’t expect it to work for you well enough to be used in real life situations within a month of training. It does not work as, “think of W and it will write W”, it is more like trying to learn how your arms work for the first time and you dont know what nerves and brainwaves triger the movement. You really get to work close to the core of your body, and I did read some tiny topics of brainwaves, and how they could improve your mental state.

Basically it is a redirect I use mostly when searching. When I search I use q as the GET variable, and this will redirect the url to ‘…/list/?q=My search&submit=send’ because Zend Framework demands a name of every element, even if submit doesn’t need a name. What is most important here is to clear out stupid looking urls, and I prefer having ‘/q/My search/’ as it is more obvious.

This is what I do and I only use Zend Framework standard library.

In my case I did only have the &submit appended, and in this tiny function I unset the parameter submit and send the request once more, returning me to the same site ‘list’ but with the url ‘…/list/q/my query/’
Wonderful, and yet another saticefied customer.

If you are completely fresh and new to Zend Framework I recommend you to take the guides on youtube.com and buy the book “Pro Zend Framework Techniques: Build a Full CMS Project”. This book taught me how to structure my code as a real professional, and made me realize how I should implement the more advanced features that have seemed to be really far away.

References

Name: Zend Framework: The Official Programmer’s Reference Guide.
ISBN10: 1-4302-1906-8.
Web: http://apress.com/book/view/1430219068

Name: Pro Zend Framework Techniques: Build a Full CMS Project.
ISBN10: 1-4302-1879-7.
Web: http://apress.com/book/view/1430218797

After a few years with PHP programming it turned out that I had a project comming up. I was to develop the most advanced function I have ever heard of, and it seemed to be so hard, but still doable. I was supposed to develop an image upload and thumbnail script (I didn’t know there was any to just download) and on top of that, create an image with 4 layers with customized font and letter spacing. However, there were some commands to calculate how large each letter was and thereby be able to center the text by a formula. After many hours of no success att all I almost gave up, but it turned out that there was to be another break just before I gave up, every single time. After almost being able to render an image, I had to tell the customer that there is no way to do this. One month later I was done with the function, and it also included a caching of the images so that it woulden’t have to compute a new image every time it was shown in the page.

What I created was:

What is involved is background is white, then there is an image in the first layer of a large 1 with white background. Then there is a header that explains that “First price goes to:” followed by a new text stating the winner. And there is no such thing as specifying center, or newline, everything is manually calculated.

The trick was:
The image is generated through PHP ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/)
The font is a special font, which I don’t remember
The url I used to generate these was: <address>/class/make_winner.php?w=1&n=Oldek (there is also a &s=1.0 for letterspacing)
This image is cached through saving the file to: save(‘folder’, md5(w.n.s).’.jpg’); (function is not correct, but you get the idea with the variables).
When accessing the /class/make_winner.php?w=1&n=Oldek address I check if file_exists(‘/img/winners/’.md5(w.n.s).’.jpg’);
And if it does exists then load it instead of creating a new one.

Simple as that I made my first really advanced function, using library ImageMagick. However I was not able to reuse anything of what I created. Everything is trapped in that project, and if I want to do similar functions again I would use a more advanced library that enables me to develop this faster, otherwise create one myself so I can share it with others and reuse it in every project.

First introduction of me and who I am and what I do.