Have you ever tried to parse, process or preg_replace some HTML? Ever tried to do it when the HTML is UTF-8 encoded? Getting rid of white space can be tricky, here’s a few tricks I’ve learned.

When working with large and complex datasets in Symfony, there comes a point where the ORM layer (Propel or Doctrine) causes more problems than it solves. Sometimes it’s necessary to debug large SQL queries built using the ORM layer, and at other times it’s appropriate to bypass the ORM layer entirely.  The following snippets come from projects using Propel, I realise a lot of folks will have moved on to Doctrine but I hope there may be one or two useful things for that here too.

Welcome to Part 2 of my YUI Carousel series. If you haven’t read it, Part 1 is here. Part 2 uses class names to setup multiple carousel instances, and also drops the YUI CSS in favour of writing your own custom css. The final Part 3 will show you how to write your own completely custom navigation for the carousel.

If you haven’t already read the first part of this tutorial, I suggest that you do. If you want to follow along, then please setup your workspace with a basic HTML file and somewhere to put Javascript, CSS & images now, the demonstration page is here . I’ll be using the same images as last time, same rules apply!

Welcome to my first JavaScript related post! I’m currently in the process of both learning *proper* JavaScript and trying to get to grips with the YUI framework. If you have suggestions for how to improve the following code I’d love to hear them.

The YUI Carousel widget is currently in Beta, and the navigation that it generates is very basic and, unlike the rest of the YUI framework, doesn’t have the necessary CSS hooks to style it properly. This may change with the release of YUI 3.0, but the Carousel widget isn’t included yet. So for the time being this three-part series will show you how to setup a Carousel & build custom navigation.

Symfony is one of my favourite bits of technology. I’ve got plans to write several articles and tutorials on it, but as I know many people haven’t yet heard of it, or are unaware of how it could help them, I thought it best to write an introductory article. So, here is an explanation of what Symfony is, why I use it, and why you may want to start using it too.