Useful Tools

PHP Project files">Finding syntax errors in your PHP Project files

Posted by on 24 August, 2010 at 2:34 pm

Till posted this lit­tle snip­pet;
It’s so use­ful I just had to share it

find . \( –name “*.php” –o –name “*.phtml” \) –exec php –l {} \;

Just go to your project direc­tory and fire it off, it will help you find those pesky unmatched {}

FastCopy — Moving / Copying files Lightning fast on Windows

Posted by on 1 April, 2010 at 1:16 pm

Any­one that has been work­ing on a Win­dows based sys­tem (Regard­less of what ver­sion) groans every­time you have to copy or move many files from a drive to another…
I did how­ever find this lit­tle gem that takes most of the pain out of it;
Fast­Copy is the Fastest Copy/Delete Soft­ware on Win­dows.
It sup­ports UNICODE and over MAX_PATH […]

PHP5 Prefixed codebases">Introducing a Tool for Namespacing PHP5 Prefixed codebases

Posted by on 29 March, 2010 at 1:18 pm

Ralph Schindler writes;
Hey All–
Over the past few days, I’ve been work­ing on a tool that I think might help expe­dite the task of con­vert­ing all of our code into a Name­spaced code­base.  Cur­rently, it’s been tested on sim­ple com­po­nents like Zend_Acl and Zend_Filter and over the course of the next few days, we’ll be apply­ing it […]

Zend Studio code formatter for Zend Framework

Posted by on 21 March, 2010 at 5:43 pm

This is an excel­lent addi­tion to you tools arse­nal if you use Zend Stu­dio and Zend Frame­work. Kudos to Ivo Jansh for pub­lish­ing this!
Zend Stu­dio is a great IDE and we use it a lot at Ibuild­ings (in addi­tion to Net­Beans, PDT and Vim). One of the nice fea­tures is the code for­mat­ter that […]

HTML valid with Zend Framework, Tidy and Firebug">Keeping your HTML valid with Zend Framework, Tidy and Firebug

Posted by on 31 January, 2010 at 2:17 pm

Ryan Mauger wrote a good arti­cle on tidy­ing things behind the scenes, dur­ing devel­op­ment, def­i­nitely worth a look;
With Zend Frame­work there is an easy way to ensure that you always cre­ate valid HTML in your appli­ca­tions. This involves the use of a sim­ple Front Con­troller Plu­gin, and the php Tidy com­po­nent.
Valid HTML is impor­tant for a […]

& Pootle">Translate Toolkit & Pootle

Posted by on 21 January, 2010 at 6:15 pm
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Trans­la­tion Tools

I’ve got a whole lot of ques­tions about what tools other than poedit that exists espe­cially for teams, so I’ll start going through and try to review tools avail­able and add them to the new Trans­la­tion Tools arti­cle series.

I hope you’ll find this useful.

Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids – Quix

Posted by on 13 January, 2010 at 5:20 pm

Your Book­marklets, On Steroids
Quix is an exten­si­ble book­marklet, that allows you to eas­ily access all your book­marks and book­marklets, across all your browsers, while main­tain­ing them in only one spot. All you have to do is remem­ber the short­cut for the book­marklet, so, basi­cally, it’s like a com­mand line for your browser!
Quix comes with an […]

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