Twitter Bootstrap and the QuickForm2 Callback Renderer

Posted on 23 September 2011 by Bertrand Mansion

I don’t know about you, but for me building HTML Forms and styling HTML Forms are maybe the most boring things in web development. It’s repetitive and takes a lot of time to do things correctly.

That’s why tools like Twitter’s Bootstrap and PEAR’s HTML_QuickForm2 can help with this part of our job.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have QuickForm2 generate a markup compatible with Bootstrap CSS, so that you could get a nice looking form without to much efforts? Well, that’s what I plan to do here.
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PHP with Intl and Gettext on OSX Lion

Posted on 6 August 2011 by Bertrand Mansion

Mac OSX Lion ships with PHP 5.3.6. There are also other ways to get PHP working on Lion, for example:

These are all very good solutions, but since I prefer to travel light and the version in Lion already comes with a lot of useful extensions, I preferred to go with it.
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From iPhone to Samsung Galaxy S2

Posted on 18 June 2011 by Bertrand Mansion

Two days ago, I received my new Samsung Galaxy S2, which is a smartphone running Android. Previously, I was using an iPhone 3G but it really started to feel sluggish more and more with time. I was still using iOS 3 since I had no use for version 4 features and was afraid it would just make the phone even slower.
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Getting started with HTML_QuickForm2

Posted on 5 June 2011 by Bertrand Mansion

QuickForm 2 is a PHP library which makes the development of complex and modern HTML forms easier and faster. It is the natural successor of QuickForm with a new revamped API, PHP5 support, new features and less bloat. Its development was started in 2007 by Alexey Borzov and Bertrand Mansion, and we are very close to a first beta release. I already use QuickForm 2 in production on a dozen of sites and since its code is almost fully unit tested, it is very stable.
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