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Set up a database connection with Forge and Navicat

Set up a database connection with Forge and Navicat

When doing this it is important to understand some of the concepts involved. I love Laravel Forge, and also love the freedom of using Navicat for database access. Between the two it is very powerful and fast to get access to the database. We don't directly connect...

Latest Updates to Ace Web Design

Latest Updates to Ace Web Design

Just a quick blog post to let people know of all the great things happening around here. We haven't posted on the Ace Web Design blog for several years and we now intend on getting back to posting on here regularly about not only our progress as a business but about...

Upgrading MongoDb in php7 to use the php library

Upgrading MongoDb in php7 to use the php library

Recently we upgraded to php7 in our local environment, and most things worked straight away without any changes. Going from php 5.5 to php 7 seemed to work flawlessly with most of our code, as we have been strictly sticking to php standards in coding for quite some time, so the backwards compatibility seemed to be great.

Our projects are running with Zend Framework. Some of our older ones with Zend Framework 1 but our current projects all are using ZF2 as the code base.

Setting up https on Zend Server for Windows

Setting up https on Zend Server for Windows

Hi Guys, It's been a while since I last posted on here, but I'm going to try to post a lot more regularly now. The reason behind this post is that, earlier today I needed to set up a secure domain on my local host. So being that I had to have a secure domain to test...

How I set up my email signature

How I set up my email signature

I was recently asked how I set up my email signature, and thought I would share with a quick blog post for anyone that wanted to do a similar signature. The one which I use the most is the one below. It gives a personal touch because it shows you are willing to put...

Ace Web Design now offers blog install and design

Ace Web Design originally offers web designing, web development, advertising, and search engine optimization. Recently, the business has come up with the newest service offering wordpress installation and designing to cater to the recent needs of business owners who...

Add Templates to CKEditor

Add Templates to CKEditor

While I've been developing a newsletter module for Zend Framework this week, I have had to look at ckeditor very closely. I saw that you can edit the templates that are available, and also the styles you can use. Also the icons in the toolbar are customizable also. I...

Make a google weather plugin in Zend Framework

Make a google weather plugin in Zend Framework

I've been experimenting with creating a few new handy plugins and view helpers to assist in rapid fire development with Zend Framework. I came across a post recently which outlined how easy it is to output weather with php and Google Weather API So I thought I would...