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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

After I had upgraded from Firebug 1.2.0b7 to 1.2.0b15, my web apps were no longer throwing any kind of logs into the Firebug console. I'm using the Zend_Log_Writer_Firebug class for that.
Luckily, just earlier today I noticed a new release of Firebug 1.2.0. And with that, FirePHP 0.1.1.2. But now there was a new problem:
["There was […]

Evidently 2008 is the year of the aggregators. They're everywhere. Socialthing, ping.fm, and what have you. But here's one with an immedialy obvious business model. Introducing Spokeo. An aggregator that asks you to provide your AOL, Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo email credentials (which, in my opinion isn't the safest way to share contacts and I […]