Developer positions

3 x PHP developers Strong communication skills OOP knowledge SOAP / XML interfacing 1- 2 years working experience Strong process flow abilities AJAX CSS HTML XML PHP 4 and PHP5 exposure MySql Candidates need to be able to work under pressure and be flexible to overtime work, we deal with the best brands in SA [...]

Building a Zend Modular CMS System – Part 7 – Zend Translate

Ok, we need some multilanguage systems.!!!! Lets implement our language file system, now in line with how we are developing this system the following points must be taken into account: Default Langauge file per module Langauge specific file per module Site specific langauge per module

Zend Framework BB Code Editor View / Form Helper

Ok, this is most likely not going to be used by many, however as we needed it for a module we are busy planning I threw it together in literally 5 minutes, this view helper will add a textarea to your form with bbcode buttons to insert bbcode with options for bold, italic, underline, lists, [...]

Building a Zend Modular CMS System – Part 6 – User registration & Management

Ok, we are getting somewhere now, we have positionable blocks, users permissions and static pages along with the menu base, it is time now to start building on this, in this post we are going to look at the following: User Registration & Activation of account Admin List / add / view users Zend_Form, jQuery [...]

Building a Zend Modular CMS System – Part 5 Navigation and Blocks

Ok, we have a very rough base up and running, however, without navigation a site is useless, as is it without at least marginal SEO, in this post we will add the basics of Navigation, Blocks and a little SEO which we actually already started but never focused on in the page manager section.

Building a Zend Modular CMS System – Part 4 (continued)

Ok, part 4 got a bit long for one post, and as i have not completed what i wanted to achieve in that post, it will now continue, in this post we look at the following: Building a Admin area to manage our pages and controlling access to the specific page Also some good news: [...]

Zend Framework TinyMce View Helper

The one thing i feel that is missing from the Zend Framework is the intergration of a decent WYSIWYG Editor, now the two best are TinyMCE and FCKEditor, in this post i will show you how to intergrate TinyMCE into your application,

Building a Zend Modular CMS System – Part 4 – Admin & Login

Ok up till now we have managed to get a very rough base up and running, we will now start fine tuning it aswell as adding core functionality, this will allow us to restrict areas of the site to certain people. To do this we will need to implement a login, registration and access controll [...]

Building a Zend Modular CMS System – Part 3 – Database

Ok you have read this far, means you are serious in looking to build a CMS (or are you just looking for the code?), Either way round, we now reach part 3 of our Zend CMS Framework, Intergration of the Database, by the end of this part you will be able to have a page [...]

Building a Zend Modular CMS System – Part 1

This is the initial phase, planning, no you cannot just jump into the code you need to plan your way first. What we are looking at is setting up a base system that will allow you as the webhost / developer to get a site up and running in the least amount of time (except [...]

Colorise your ubuntu prompt

This is found here If you have difficulties using the terminal because the prompt isn’t visible enough or you would simply like it to look nicer, this howto is for you. It should work on any distribution if you use bash shell. I’ve attached a before and after picture of my terminal as an example [...]

Process pop3 mails with php

Have you ever wanted to automate something that comes in via email, such as domain renewals, payment notifications etc? Well, I will give you the basics how to do it. Please note: Due to contractual obligations, I cannot divulge much information here that I have written for the company, however the gist of it will [...]

Vacancies

The company I work for has 3 vacancies available, please direct interest to steven at igroup dot co za 1. Linux Sys Admin Senior position, must have postfix, exim, qmail, apache, php, mysql, iptables, centOS and gentoo experience. Must be able to maintain, setup and monitor multiple servers. Must be diligent with backups etc. Support [...]

Interesting: Create Daemons in PHP

Got forwarded this information by a work colleague, really interesting and I will look forward to what he uses it for. Everyone knows PHP can be used to create websites. But it can also be used to create desktop applications and commandline tools. And now with a class called System_Daemon, you can even create daemons [...]

Happy Birthday Denham!

Denny, Denny Denny … my dream man ;) Hope you have a fab day dude! You can find him on Facebook and his own blog