Richard Parnaby-King

Web Developer – PHP, Zend Framework and Actionscript 3

Rating System

Most eCommerce websites have a rating system for their products or services, such as Amazon’s below. These rating systems provide customers with other customers’ experiences with the particular product or service. But did you know that these ratings can also influence your ranking on search engines, such as Google? And that some search engines even […]

Redirect website from non www to www

Canonicalisation issues occur when a website is accessible from two different addresses, for example ‘www.your-site.com’ and ‘your-site.com’. The worst that can happen is that your website gets indexed twice, one version gets seen as duplicate content of the other, and your website does not rank as high as it possibly could. On an apache server […]

How to get the optgroup for a multiselect in jQuery

Imagine you have created a web application for a small grocery shop, and as a free gift for signing up they are letting you have one free piece of fruit or one free punnet of berries. In a notification area you want to indicate to the user what type of gift they have chosen. Using […]

Zend_Form – prefix text using decorator

I want to prefix the form with a title, within the form tags, but above the form elements. [html] Login Form [/html] Further more, I do not want to use a view script.

Using Route to set Action in Zend_Form

First, some definitions: A form action is the URI to which the form is submitted. Zend_Form makes it easy for developers to create complex forms that filter and validate the date from a submitted form before returning it to the rest of the application for it to do whatever is needed. In this example we […]

Canonicalisation and Zend

Canonicalisation issues occur when a webpage is able to be accessed via both www.yoursite.com/somepage and www.yoursite.com/somepage/, in severe cases this can cause the search engines to effectively index 2 identical copies of your site. Zend routes do not discriminate between pages that end in a slash or not – if a route does end in […]

Random Quote Image Generator

Nearly every forum allows it’s users to have a signature, somewhere the user can post a link to their personal or favourite website as well as quotes and images. This post will go through the steps of combining these last two so that every time the image is reloaded, a random quote is placed onto an image.

« go back

  • ABOUT

    Having fifteen years of programming experience in PHP, Zend Framework and ActionScript3, I have a very strong working knowledge of object orientated programming.

    I am a PC Gamer! Playing FPS, RTS, RPG and the occasional MMO since 1996 I have a huge number of a variety of fast-paced games.

  • Recent Posts

  • Categories

  • RSS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR FEED