When using maps on a website, Google is clearly the service to go with. If you are using JavaScript only, parsing a JSON response from Google shouldn´t be difficult, but how to use the response in PHP? In this article, I´ll describe how to use Zend Framework components, but with a link to How-To´s with [...]
Posts Tagged ‘encoding’
Google Maps Geocoding with JSON and PHP
Posted: 29th January 2011 by admin in Google Maps API, Zend FrameworkTags: Ajax, encoding, Geocoding, Google API v3, Google Maps, JSON, PHP, Zend Framework
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Converting a MySQL database to UTF-8
Posted: 20th January 2011 by admin in Zend FrameworkTags: charset, convert database, database, encoding, MySQL, PHP, utf-8, Zend Framework
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 is… do NOT work on a live [...]