Archive for the ‘Web Standards’ Category

I’d mentioned a while back that I had built an intranet application with PHP. While I was able to spit out accessible and validating pages, I was not a very advanced programmer so the entire application was written using procedural code. I was contacted by my former manager to do some reworking of the site so that it can be extended, so I have decided to use Zend Framework as a base for a complete rebuild of the project using Object Oriented programming.

I’ve been reading a bit the last few months on Object Oriented PHP development and I think that using the framework will give me a head start as there are a lot of standard things to handle in most applications that don’t need to be re-invented. Quite a bit of the security and database connectivity issues are already handled by the framework and this also gives me a place to begin to really understand the structure and theory of OO programming by following an already established structure.

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It’s been some time since I’ve made an entry. I’ve been working for a small Steel Manufacturer for a couple of months now, and I’ve been working on one of my largest projects to date.

I’ve been working on an internal website to track blueprints and communications. I’ve done a small bit of PHP programming in the past, but this is a ground up project where all design decisions are my own. I’ve been working 12-14 hour days for almost two months and I am feeling great about it. I won’t have to work around design flaws and force accessibility and web standards, I can build them in from the get-go making sure everything passes validation.

I may do a public facing website for them at some point, but for now this is a great experience!