El Blog del Antonio
Programming Web with PHP, CSS, Javascript and ∞
PalmStudios Model Agency
Jul 14th
I would like to introduce you my last web project: http://www.palmstudios.com
For this project I have developed a sort of MVC (Model View Controller) over the RedBeanPHP DB library (PHP 5.3.2). This project even though it looks quite simple it has a very power CMS (Content Management System) on its backend that allows the model agency to control most of the aspects of its business:
- - Clients Management
- - Models Management (Men, Women, Children & Extras) -contact details, measurements, pictures, and so on…
- - Promotional Packages Management – this is a special addon which allows the agency to create model promotional bundles to send More >
Yii Framework -Final Decision
Jun 19th
I never felt comfortable with external libraries, those created by other people. Always, since my old times with Visual Basic, have created my own and until now, everything I created was good enough but… Suddenly, after I found that marvellous library called RedBean, I found my self re-programming all my libraries and end up creating a controller and a base model class for a sort of MVC library – I will post it one of these days so you guys can look at it and find out how easy is to implement that incredible library is (thanks Gabor de Mooij!) More >
Speed Up Your Pages With Lazy Load JQuery Plugin
Jun 15th
I would like to introduce you this simple but very efficient plugin that will help us speed up the downloading time of our web pages. I am talking about mr Mika Tuupola’s Lazy Load JQuery Plugin.
This plugin loads the images of a web page as the user scrolls to their position, that is, images wont load until they are not within the visible viewport margins of the window.
How to use
First we need to insert the following references into our code
<!-- insert a reference to jquery and the jquery.lazyload plugin --> <script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="jquery.lazyload.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
And now this few More >
Uri Class for PHP
Jun 10th
For years, we developers tend to keep functions that we find useful into our projects, after certain time they become obsolete or you move one to higher level ways of programming. Some of us, can’t get rid of the code that was once collected-created and I thought let’s see if I post one of my silly old classes what can we get out of it? Let’s make it open source hahahaha.
I propose you the following: Here is my small old good set of Uri PHP functions encapsulated into one class, I know is not a great deal but, let’s see More >
RedBean ORM
Jun 7th
I was breaking my head towards to find a better ORM approach for my own written framework. I used, and was very happy with P.O.R.K., for quite long time but, as most of us, I was looking for something that could improve the speed of my projects. P.O.R.K. configuration is not hard at all, it is compound of a set of classes encapsulated in three files that allowed me to create models in sort of ActiveRecord style and was really, really good when I first started.
Now my projects are bigger, require a lot more of database analysis and those sometimes go up to More >
Zend Server CE Personal Experience
Jun 3rd
I would like to tell you all about my ‘incredible’ experience with one of the new Zend Tools called ‘Zend Server’. The experience was ‘so great’ that it took me six days to recover my self, if I tell you the truth guys, I nearly got into depression.
Have you ever experience a series of ‘impossible things’ that happened one after the other without any comprehension? Well, that happens to me with Zend Server CE.
I am currently running a MacOSX Snow Leopard on a 17 inch MacBook Pro for the development of my projects and I have the built in Apache, More >
Technology Exact Production Costs?
Jun 2nd
Over the past months we have heard right and left about the new comer and so called great tool ‘iPad’. Now, it is the best tool to interact with Internet, to view-share your photos, to blah, blah, blah… Again, the same story. So, marketing wise, Apple is unreal, their designs, their messages, their ‘hey people wait that is something even greater to come’ is remarkable but let me ask you guys, what is the exact point of so much technology nowadays if most of us, mere mortals, dont have a freaking clue on how the hell all those house-work-devices really More >
Restaurant Casablanca
May 14th
Bruno Casablanca Restaurant and Pizzeria
Another site finished: www.brunocasablanca.com
Yeah, is a restaurant business, located in one of the most beautiful places in the Balearic Islands: Betlem, in La Colonia de San Pedro, Majorca, Spain. The site uses a web panel to control:
- Picture Galleries
- Web site content
- Translations
- Events
- Suggestions
In this site I make use of one of the greatest galleries around Pirobox, boxen -to display the menu, and FlippingBook HTML Edition for the menu viewing. You can check the website and see how I implemented these three cool tools, feel free to ask me any doubt related to them in case you wish to use it in More >
Torrenova Rentacar
Mar 31st
Torrenova Rentacar
I would like to show you one of the reasons of why I have been so busy lately: torrenovarentacar.com.
One of the most complete sites in terms of rentacar systems. Fully synchronized with one of the most used rent a car management programs in Spain, CarPlus (www.cargestion.es) and with a highly powerful control panel where the rent a car owner controls absolutely everything. Its web panel features:
- Company details
- Contacts
- Offices and their Google locations
- CarPlus Settings and Sync
- Users
- Extras
- Cars
- Car Groups
- Car Models
- Translations (It can set new languages at will)
If you have time, please check it out as I would love to get some feedback More >
Bookakar.com Finally!
Feb 24th
Finally, after long time of work, the first release of my own company: bookakar.com.
I have implemented lots of concepts widely spread throughout the Internet and I truly hope that they all work. Still, lot of work to do but as soon as I have spare time I will share with all of you guys lots of PHP and JS bits and pieces that I hope we, all together, could improve in order to make a great Open Source Resource for everybody to use.
For example, I have developed a set of PHP classes that help PHP programmers to implement GMaps More >
I'm a 38 year old Web Developer working from Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain. I am Founder and Lead Developer for 
