Posted by nick on January 12, 2012 at 2:31 pm
I was pleasantly surprised at how simple it was to integrate a good captcha solution with Zend_Form. Your form doesn’t have to extended a special object or anything; you just need to add a “captcha” element like so:
$this->addElement('captcha', 'captcha', array(
'label' => 'Please Type:',
'required' => true,
'captcha' => array(
'pubkey' => RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY,
'privkey' => RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY,
'captcha' => 'reCaptcha'
)
));Be sure to change or set the defined variables for public and private keys provided to you with your recaptcha account. You don’t have to do anything to validate if the user entered the correct letters in your controller as Zend has already taken care of that part for you. As long as you’re using Zend’s isValid() method like so:
if ($form->isValid($request->getPost())) {
Posted by nick on December 23, 2011 at 12:38 pm
In command prompt we can switch from one drive to another drive by just typing the drive letter name suffixed with the character ‘:’
For example if you are working in C: drive and if you want to switch to E: drive just type ‘E:’ at command prompt and press ‘Enter‘.
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Posted by nick on December 9, 2011 at 9:02 am
Using Mac OS X on the command line, log into mysql and select your database. Then run the following for a tab delimited file located on your desktop:
load data LOCAL infile ‘/Users/YOURNAME/Desktop/standards.txt’ into table TABLE_NAME fields terminated by “\t” lines terminated by “\r”
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Posted by nick on December 5, 2011 at 9:06 am
I had a need to clone an array with JavaScript. There appears to be a number of different ways to do it, including writing your own function. All of these solutions below will just create a reference to the original array:
var newArray = myArray.slice(0);
var newArray = myArray.concat([]);
var newArray = clone(myArray);
A popular answer using jQuery is the following:
var newArray = jQuery.extend(true, {}, myArray);However, this solution will return an object and you cannot get the length of an object like you can an array.
To return an array, we change the curly braces to square brackets like so:
var newArray = jQuery.extend(true, [], myArray);
This is the solution that works.
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Posted by nick on December 2, 2011 at 2:10 pm
I have a bachelor’s in Management Information Systems and have been a full time professional web developer since 2004. I have experience leading a team of web developer’s with a focus on creating a learning environment. Through my years of web development I’ve accumulated a variety of related skills including html, css, javascript, xml, seo, php, and sql to name a few.
Previously in my career I built a successful ecommerce business and grew it for over five years, then sold it in 2011. I have first hand knowledge of all areas of running an online business from sourcing a distributor / drop shipper, coding the website, search engine optimization, online marketing and advertising, payment and checkout, and customer retainment.
New to web development? I’ll show you the basics from first principles. Need help with a programming class? We’ll work through your assignments, the book problems and exercises and I’ll fill in all the gaps your professor didn’t. Want to make the leap from book exercises to making a great looking website following best practices? It’s a big one, and together we can do it.
I would love to work with you and help you in any way I can, and I look forward to hearing from you! Please contact me to set something up. I can do remote tutoring over skype if you’d like.
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Hi I'm Nick Bartlett and thanks for visiting my blog. I'm not much of a writer; many of my posts are short and to the point while others are meant to be a reference for myself and other web developers.