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Oct
31
The Zend Framework Project this morning released their new GData Client Library for interfacing with the Google Data APIs.
The Google data APIs (GData) provide a protocol for reading and writing data on the web. GData can use either Atom or RSS and has a feed-publishing system built on Atom with some custom extensions for [...]
Oct
29
The release of the new Yahoo! Bookmarks beta has been on a number of news portals lately. Yahoo! Bookmarks has 20 million users, and is available in 12 languages (and counting). But the exciting news about the new Yahoo! Bookmarks is that it was built with Symfony.
Michael Salisbury, Technical Yahoo!, explained the reasons why Symfony [...]
Oct
27
Easy DPS Payment Express interface for PHP
Filed Under DPS, PHP, Security | 5 Comments
DPS are New Zealand’s biggest player in the payments gateway business. They’ve been around for as long as I’ve been building E-Commerce sites which must be at least 6 or 7 years now.
Their main service for handling card processing on sites is Payment Express, or PX. It’s been through a number of different [...]
Oct
25
SSL Redirect Filter for Symfony
Filed Under PHP, Security, Symfony | 7 Comments
Serving secure pages on a website is made a lot easier by having both your secure and insecure pages served by the same files - all you need to do is change the scheme from http:// to https:// and you’re done. But how do you manage which pages should redirect to the secure server? [...]
Oct
20
PHPCheck released: PHP environment test tool
Filed Under Open Source, PHP | 1 Comment
A confession: it’s been over a year since I wrote this bit of code, with the intention of making it available to all and sundry. Clearly I haven’t had quite the time that was required to build a page and post it up on the web somewhere, but now I’ve got this blog going again [...]