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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 23:27:14 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Padraic Brady's Blog: ZF Blog App - Part 4: Design with Blueprint CSS & Zend_Layout]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10077</guid>
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<i>Padraic Brady</i> has posted <a href="http://blog.astrumfutura.com/archives/356-An-Example-Zend-Framework-Blog-Application-Part-4-Setting-the-Design-Stage-with-Blueprint-CSS-Framework-and-Zend_Layout.html">part four</a> today detailing his development process for a piece of blogging software with the Zend Framework. This part focuses on the design stage of the application.
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In this article we're going to take a stab at setting up a default blog style, using some filler content, and finally capturing the design with a Zend_View template to be consumed by Zend_Layout as a common HTML Layout for the entire future blog.
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He uses the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/">Blueprint CSS framework</a> for his projects, a simple system that helps you lay out pages it a bit more sensible fashion without having to worry about the underlying CSS so much. He shows how to integrate the library into his project and gives some sample HTML to style with it. Then, with a little help from the Zend_Layout component, he splits it up into a layout that can be used over the entire website (code included).
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:21:43 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vinu Thomas' Blog: Replace print_r and var_dump with Krumo]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9943</guid>
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<i>Vinu Thomas</i> has <a href="http://blogs.vinuthomas.com/2008/04/07/replace-print_r-and-var_dump-with-krumo/">proposed a replacement</a> for the usual var_dump or print_r sort of debugging developers tend to do - <a href="http://krumo.sourceforge.net/">Krumo</a>.
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To put it simply, Krumo is a replacement for print_r() and var_dump(). By definition Krumo is a debugging tool (now for PHP5 only), which displays structured information about any PHP variable [...] it does the same job, but it presents the information beautified using CSS and DHTML.
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It also supports output of other data in a "pretty format" like backtraces, included files and a listing of all constants. You can check out a demo of it in action <a href="http://kaloyan.info/krumo/demo/index.php">here</a>.
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:44:31 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tiffany Brown's Blog: Turn text files into pull down menus]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9710</guid>
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<i>Tiffany Brown</i> shares <a href="http://tiffanybbrown.com/2008/02/26/turn-text-files-into-pull-down-menus/">a quick function</a> she whipped up to create dropdown menus from the contents of a newline separated text file (or files).
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I developed this PHP function for a project I'm working on. I'm posting it here in case I need it again, or in case you find it handy.
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The <a href="http://tiffanybbrown.com/2008/02/26/turn-text-files-into-pull-down-menus/">function</a> turns each line into an option tag making defining custom menus based on the contents of dynamically-given text files easy.
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This could also be easily adapted to create navigations menus at the top of your pages with a few modifications to the HTML tags being used and some CSS to change the look of the list.
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:35:00 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[PHPBuilder.com: Review: Rapid PHP 2007]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8296</guid>
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PHPBuilder.com <a href="http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/lunderwood20070718.php3">has a review</a> posted today of a piece of PHP development software - <a href="http://www.blumentals.net/rapidphp/">RapidPHP 2007</a>:
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Of the many editors available for creating (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP pages, several combine a few different yet compatible languages. Some include support and a few manage to make it work seamlessly. <a href="http://www.blumentals.net/rapidphp/">RapidPHP 2007</a> belongs in the latter category.
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They <a href="http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/lunderwood20070718.php3">walk through the list</a> of features (including a PHP syntax checker) and include a screenshot of the PHP function hints in action. The reviewer also talks about the support for other languages it has - the (X)HTML editor and CSS style sheet editor.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:18:00 -0500</pubDate>
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