No-MVC Zend Framework: Rating Controller / Part VI

The controller is the most important part in this ZF tutorial. This is where most of the PHP code resides. It handles all input – coming thru the file receiving the Ajax rating – as well as all output – e. g. updating the rating scores. The only...

Converting a MySQL database to UTF-8

I just spent about 2 days to convert my old MySQL database from latin1 / latin1_general_ci to UTF-8 character encoding. There are about a gazillion pitfalls, especially when you work on old PHP code mixed with ZF code, on a live site of a client. The first tip...