Stefan Gabos web developer extraordinaire
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Apr
2011
Zebra_Pagination version 1.1b 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 1.1b a bug was fixed where disabling the “next” and “previous” links, when on first or last page, respectively, was not working properly; thanks to Javier for reporting.
Apr
2011
jQuery Plugin Boilerplate
A template for kick-starting jQuery plugins development so you don't have to poke around the internet to look-up how it's done.
Apr
2011
Zebra_Session, version 2.0 now available
Zebra_Session is a PHP class that acts as a wrapper for PHP’s default session handling functions but instead of storing session data in flat files it stores them in a MySQL database, thus providing both better security and better performance.
Version 2.0 implements session locking; session locking is a way to ensure that data is correctly handled in a scenario with multiple concurrent AJAX requests; thanks to Michael Kliewe for suggesting this and to Andy Bakun for this excellent article on the subject Race Conditions with Ajax and PHP Sessions.
Apr
2011
Zebra_Database version 2.3 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 2.3 a bug was fixed where where the script would generate a warning if the update method was called with invalid arguments and changed how the insert_bulk method needs to receive arguments, making it more easier to use.
Apr
2011
Zebra_Form, version 2.0 now available
Zebra_Form is a PHP class that simplifies the process of creating and validating HTML forms. Its object-oriented structure promotes rapid HTML forms development and encourages developers to write clean and easily maintainable code. It frees the developers from the repetitive task of writing the code for validating forms by offering powerful built-in client-side and server-side validation.
A LOT has changed in version 2.0!
Who am I
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.