Update: This project is now hosted at my GitHub account.
While I am a huge fan of Zend Framework, I miss having the code generation that is bundled with other frameworks I use. Since my favorite codegen/ORM is from the Qcubed project, I decided to take the Qcubed code generator and customize it for Zend Framework.
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I have recently been working on adding local fonts to my customized version of svg-edit. The idea is to have a font selector with several fonts from my local system. I have been using the recently released Google WebFont Loader API to load font files from my local server into the website. Google has made it easier than ever. (note: Google will collect stats from your website if you use this API, just like they do if you use any of their services.)
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Zend Form is extremely powerful, and I love most of the built in validators. But some of the validators are overkill for many projects. Take the EmailAddress validator for instance. I have never worked on a web-form where I wanted 3 error messages to appear if the Email address entered was invalid. (To see what I mean, just type in “a@a” for your email address and see what Zend_Validate_EmailAddress displays). I have seen several questions and complaints about this problem (Example 1 or Example 2) and thought I would offer up my fix.
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Mark Hopwood has created a great post on installing Magento stand-alone on OS X. I know there have been several posts in the Magento forums with questions on this. Just remember if you are installing Magento on OS X with Zend Server, you need to open your TCP/IP sockets in the mysql.conf file so that Mysql can be connected to using localhost or the local IP address.
I finally did it. I bought a mac. And after navigating around OS X for ten minutes using the multi-touch pad, I can honestly tell you I don’t think I’ll ever go back. As I use it more I am curious to see if developing on my new, sleek, aluminum toy will continue to bring the feelings of ecstasy.
The first thing I did was install Zend Server CE to develop and test locally on my machine. Here are my notes on the Zend Server CE installation for the OS X, which didn’t seem as user friendly as it’s Windows Installer counterpart. But I am such a noob with Macs it is probably just me. This is for all you windows developers making the switch.
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