September 27, 2008 – 11:39 am
There are various ways to update rows in a database table using the Zend_Db_Table components. You can use use Zend_Db_Table::update(), like so:
$table = My_Table();
$table->update(array('age' => 22), 'id = 1');
or retrieve the row, and update it:
$table = My_Table();
$row = $table->find(1)->current();
$row->age = 22;
$row->save();
The big difference between the two approaches is that by first retrieving the row, and […]
September 16, 2008 – 11:03 pm
I have a Linux server with a system timezone of ET (US/Eastern). But I also have a web application that needs to run in a timezone of PT (US/Pacific). Of course that's not a problem at all. I just set the timezone in my web application's bootstrap:
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); // Pacific timezone
Now I have another problem; the […]
September 13, 2008 – 2:07 pm
There are all kinds of ways to expose APIs as web services. SOAP, XML-RPC, REST, JSON-RPC. Out of all of these, SOAP is arguably the most complex, but also one of the oldest ways to expose an API (I remember preliminary SOAP and WSDL support in Delphi 6, circa 2001).
Exposing an API as a web […]