It works and only 1 line per function

After searching through the php base64 comments I found the best way to safely encode and decode base64 url components

If you creating a user signup form with Zend_Form and need a password confirmation field just use the code below, its very simple but couldn't find any info on the zend framework site on how to do it

thanks to @ralphschindler for cleaning it up and writing the test http://framework.zend.com/code/comp.php?repname=Zend+Framework&compare[]=/@24411&compare[]=/@24412

just working on a facebook app and wondering why is it always inserting the Facebook user ID as 2147483647 when the ID is something else.

I've been using the (int) filter as detailed in th the zend framework docs and examples, but as Facebook user IDs are larger than the largest integer a 32 bit server can handle so (int) doesn't work Simple solution if your such on a 32 bit server is just to use 'is_numeric'

$id = is_numeric($id) ? $id : ''; // makes Facebook IDs work on 32bit

For a while i've had issues with certain db update queries in php - particularly where image uploads are involved

My original code looked like

$this->update(strip_null_array_entries($data), 'id = '. (int)$id);