Stefan Gabos web developer extraordinaire
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Jan
2011
Zebra_Database version 2.1 now available
Zebra_Database it is an advanced, compact (one-file only), lightweight, object-oriented MySQL database wrapper built upon PHP’s MySQL extension. It provides methods for interacting with MySQL databases that are more intuitive and fun to use than PHP’s default ones.
The most important change in version 2.1 is that support for transactions has been added. Two new methods have also been added: "insert_bulk", which allows inserting multiple values into a table using a single query and "insert_update", which will create INSERT statements with ON DUPLICATE UPDATE. Some bugs in the JavaScript code of the debug console were also fixed and there are also some corrections to the documentation.
Jan
2011
Zebra_Database version 2.0 now available
Zebra_Database it is an advanced, compact (one-file only), lightweight, object-oriented MySQL database wrapper built upon PHP’s MySQL extension. It provides methods for interacting with MySQL databases that are more intuitive and fun to use than PHP’s default ones.
In version 2.0 the entire code was improved and some of the properties as well as method names were changed and, therefore, this version breaks compatibility with earlier versions. Also, lots of bugs were fixed, new methods were added and performance was improved.
Jan
2011
Zebra_Pagination version 1.0.1 now available
Zebra_Pagination is a generic pagination class that automatically generates navigation links given the total number of items and the number of items per page.
This is a *generic* pagination class, meaning that it does not display any records! It is up to developer to fetch the actual data and displaying it based on the information returned by this class. The advantage is that it can be used to paginate over records coming from any source (arrays, database, etc).
In version 1.0.1 the entire code was audited and improved and most of the method names, method arguments and global properties were changed breaking compatibility with previous versions; in addition, the generated output is cleaner and more complete examples were added.
Jan
2011
Zebra_Image, version 2.0 now available
Zebra_Image is a compact, lightweight, object-oriented image manipulation library written in and for PHP, that provides methods for performing several types of image manipulation operations. It doesn’t require any external libraries other than the GD2 extension (with which PHP usually comes pre-compiled with).
In version 2.0 the entire code was audited and improved and most of the method names, method arguments and global properties were changed breaking compatibility with previous versions; in addition, the resize() method was improved and can now resize images to exact width and height and still maintain aspect ratio by making use of the crop() method;



I am a 32 year old web developer working from Bucharest, Romania. I am coding since I was 14 and I am extremely passionate about it. For the server side of things I use PHP/MySQL while on the front-end I write valid HTML 5, nice CSS and lots of JavaScript code using jQuery.