Action helpers in Zend controller helps in abstracting concepts that are in common use for the project without cluttering the code base. Zend's official website and Zend casts gives detailed easy to use examples. Step 1: Decide where you want the helper class for the controllers to reside inside the application folder. For this example, let us create a folder hierarchy under "application" folder » application/controllers/Helper (more…)

If a user role and his credentials are not set or is incorrect for Tomcat startup via NetBeans IDE you will get this dialog box opened i) First check the Netbeans configuration settings Open Tools > Server ii) Base path for Catalina will be set in the General tab andn it will be of the form \CATALINA_BASE\conf\tomcat-users.xml. Check if a user and his role is defined as stated in the below syntax. If not add these lines <role rolename="manager"/> <user username="tomcat" password="secured" roles="manager"/> iii) In Tools > Server > General tab enter the username and password stated in the tomcat-users.xml file and this will stop the Netbeans IDE from asking you the name and password

//struts.xml <struts> <constant name="struts.devMode" value="true" /> ..... </struts>

i) Check where struts.xml is defined - Path where the file exists. In netbeans, easy way to do this to add the struts.xml file to package folder. ii) Check if the correct namespace is added in the struts.xml iii) Check if the package name is given correctly for the class in execution.

php-excel-reader Parse and retrieve information from XLS files Download from Code Google When the excel reader is run on PHP 5.3, below mentioned deprecated warning messages gets shown. i) Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated Remove & from the line below $this->_ole =& new OLERead(); and have $this->_ole = new OLERead(); instead. ii) Function split() is deprecated Function split() is deprecated and we can use explode() instead of that. $parts = split(";",$format); change it to $parts = explode(";",$format);

To display a list of directories in Linux, issue the command $ ls -l | egrep '^d'