A Day in Paradise

In the footsteps of a couple good friends I’ve decided to make the first blog entry of the new year yet another year in review round-up for the year 2006.
It’s hard to believe that we’re already done with 2006, this one went by fast. A lot happened, and due to the overflow of work, I […]

A flurry of PHP updates this week… on the heels of PHP5.2 we have ezPublish 3.9 and Zend Framework 0.60 and ezcomponents. While I have updated the PHP version on the server, I’m holding out on ezPublish and ZF till the holiday weekends.
I released the 5th article on my Zend Framework Hidden Gems series, this […]

We’ve been busting our balls on the infrastructure of our new Hedge Fund Website creation project over the last couple weeks and since we did the official launch yesterday I figured it deserved a little link love
The heart of the hedge product a niche tool for hedge fund managers to manage their investor […]

and can’t log into the system!
Thankfully there is usually someone who has done this before you. I also took a quick look at the 3 tables on another development machine and compared the data. The tables in question are: ezuser , ezuser_role and ezrole - although I didn’t modify the ezrole table.
The EZP […]

After a week of intense work on EZP templates, it quickly becomes apparent where you have made mistakes with the designing of your templates. Most of this stuff is just common sense, if anyone has any other pointers please comment, or post URLs for where this has been discussed.
CSS Rocks
EZP works best with CSS based […]

I created a section so that I can create a simple template overide over all articles in a certain section. Once I created the section I realized that anonymous users do not have access to this section.
Because of the power of eZPublish user policies the interface takes a bit of getting used to. Since […]

Redirection debugging is a handy feature when you’re debugging a custom module, and want to see how the redirections are being handled. I edited an ini-file using the backend, and redirection debugging was turned on (this is one of the reasons I like editing stuff by hand)
To enable / disable this, edit your (site).ini.append.php
DebugRedirection=disabled

To display the contents of a variable use the ‘attribute’ template operator. This works in a similar fashion to the {debug} operator in Smarty and will dump the contents of the variable to the page.
By default the ‘attribute’ operator will only display the names of the attributes of the array, but sending ’show’ as the […]