Zend Studio forgetting about your ZF Project

wickeddoc — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:40:21 +0000

as a php developer i’m using zend studio for eclipse on a daily basis. sometimes zend studio forgets about my zend framework projects, especially projects which are hosted on a SVN repository. i close my project, reopen it, and for no obvious reasons zend studio no longer recognizes it as a zend framework project. huch!?

until now i was unable to find a real solution to my problem, but here’s a little workaround which should get you up and running again, in case you’re running into the same problem.

close the project, then just open the .project file at the root of your project in your favourite text editor and check the ‘natures’ section, make sure it contains the following line:

>org.zend.php.framework.ZendFrameworkNature>

that should do the trick.

OverkillFlickr: a Flickr API interface for PHP5

wickeddoc — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:55:55 +0000

I create a small Flickr API interface for PHP5 which takes advantage of the Overloading feature of PHP5.

Using the __call method we can dynamically create an interface to all the Flickr API functions using only a very small script.

The name of the class is purely ironic as it is a very simple and easy-to-use class and far from Overkill.

class OverkillFlickr {

    # the API key we got from flickr

    private $API = "";

    static private $instance = false;

        # singleton constructor

    static function instance($api_key = "") {

      if(!OverkillFlickr::$instance) {

        OverkillFlickr::$instance = new OverkillFlickr($api_key);

      }

      return OverkillFlickr::$instance;

    }

    function __construct($api_key = "") {

      $this->API  = $api_key;

    }

      # the __call method allows us to dynamically create any

      # flickr api function we want.

      # takes an array of arguments

      # example: to call the flickr.people.findByEmail service

      # $flickr = OverkillFlickr::instance("my API key"); // API key only needed on the first call

      # $result = $flickr->people_findByEmail(array("find_email" => "my.pattern@domain.com"));

    function __call($method, $arguments) {

      $method = str_replace("_", ".", $method);

      $argument = $arguments[0];

      if (empty($method) || empty($argument) || !is_array($argument)) {

        return false;

      }

      $params = array_merge($params = array(), $argument);

      $params['api_key']  = $this->API;

      $params['method']   = "flickr." . $method;

      $params['format']   = "php_serial";

      $encoded_params = array();

      foreach ($params as $k => $v){

              $encoded_params[] = urlencode($k).'='.urlencode($v);

      }

      # call the API and decode the response

      $url = "http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?".implode('&', $encoded_params);

      $rsp = file_get_contents($url);

      $rsp_obj = unserialize($rsp);

      #

      # return the response from flickr

      #

      return $rsp_obj;

    }

  }

I suggest that you add some caching of the results you get from Flickr if you don’t want to hammer their servers too much.

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