Gareth Lennox

Category Archives: php

Learning Zend Framework

So, I’m playing with Zend Framework. My initial impressions are that it seems very cool. The database stuff especially. One thing, and this is not limited to the Zend Framework, is that it’s such a big system, there is a lot of stuff to get your head around, so documentation is critical. Unfortunately, the documentation […]

Keeping a session alive

One of the problems we found with people using our content management system was that, frequently, they would take very long editing a page, causing the session to time out, thereby losing their changes. We could have written code to catch the timout session, and somehow not lose their changes, but we decided on a […]