Returning from a template
July 25th, 2011Ever needed to return from a template earlier than at its end? Exit in the middle or even at the very beginning because you don’t want to print the rest of the template?
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Fake function/method overloading in PHP
June 26th, 2011Ever needed to call the same function with different number of parameters? Easy right, just use default values:
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function tryMe($param1, $param2 = NULL, $param3 = NULL) { … }
But what if you want to make the first parameter optional?
Here’s a simple technique for doing so it in a transparent way.
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Presenter lifecycle after form is submitted
June 19th, 2011Nette documentation doesn’t provide details about methods execution order in case of a submitted form. So hear hear, it is this:
- action<Action>
- createComponent<FormName>
- <FormName>Submitted
- render<Action>
Missing layout? Make sure you define block for content
June 16th, 2011I’ve had some troubles with a page that refused to be wrapped in a layout. It turned out I accidentally erased {block #content} in my presenter template. Read on for the background logic explanation.
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Shuffling associative array
April 19th, 2011We have shuffle() to reorder a numeric array, we have array_rand() to randomly pick a specific number of values from an array but there’s no built-in command for shuffling an associative array. After having seen a few pretty bad solutions I decided to offer my own.
