ActiveRecord and Zend_Paginator_Adapter_Interface

by Clay vanSchalkwijk on October 29, 2009

Zend has a lot of tools to help speed up the application development process.  One such tool I found useful, was Paginator.   I am using php-activerecord in my project using Zend_Framework as the backend, to tie the two together is (…)

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PHP Content Rating / Confidence

by Clay vanSchalkwijk on September 1, 2009

For those web masters dealing with user feedback looking to weight content finding the right algorithm can be challenging. From experience, there is going to be no out of the box solution since each site and the requirements will be (…)

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PHP Google Analytics API

by Clay vanSchalkwijk on July 8, 2009

GAPI 1.3 released this past month. First, read the Google Analytics Data API Reference and then read up on dimensions, metrics, and valid combinations of the two.  The quotas apply to a single web property, so each analytics profile (site1, (…)

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PHP Rapid Application Development with ZF1.8 and AR

by Clay vanSchalkwijk on May 21, 2009

In the days since I began programming in PHP the web has come a long way. With the 5.3 release of PHP, the OOP side of things are finally getting a much needed polish. In the past year there’s been (…)

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PHP/KML Polyline Simplification with Douglas-Peucker

by Clay vanSchalkwijk on April 20, 2009

Quality GIS data sometimes comes with a lot more precision than what is usable for Google Maps (or other mapping software). The problem lies in the number of points representing a polygon that you want to overlay. A county representation (…)

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