June 3, 2010
Quick Tip: If you want to change the default layout script in your Zend Framework MVC application, you can do one of the following: // Within controller $this->_helper_layout->setLayout(‘other-layout’) //other-layout.phtml //Within view script layout()->setLayout(‘other-layout’); ?> Thanks to Andrew at the StackOverflow forums. –Adam
May 31, 2010
In a current project that I’m working on, I needed to extend a UserControl to add some additional specialized functionality. This is very easy to do if all you need is to extend code, but it becomes much more difficult if you want to extend it via a XAML/C# UserControl. After much web searching, I [...]
May 30, 2010
Quick tip: If you’re wanting to have your Apache document root point to a network share in Windows, here’s what you have to do: Change your DocumentRoot to the network share (drive remapping doesn’t seem to work). Example: DocumentRoot “//path/to/share” Make sure to update the DocumentRoot path in your <Directory> config Edit the Apache service [...]
February 10, 2010
Having difficulty connecting to MySQL through PHP 5.3.x? Know that MySQL and PHP are properly configured? Using Windows Vista / 7? The problem may very well be that you’re connecting to ‘localhost.’ According to Joe Bedan, simply changing ‘localhost’ to ’127.0.0.7′ will fix the problem, and he’s right! According to another forum post, this is [...]
January 25, 2010
In my most recent project, I decided to prompt the user before doing a post back when a DropDownList changed. In order to do so, you need to add an “onchange” event to your DropDownList. It should look something like: onclick=”if(!SomeFunction(this)) return false;” Some Notes: “SomeFunction” is a javascript function that returns true or false [...]