http://devzone.zend.com/ advancing the art of PHP. Best practices, samples, articles, news, and community for PHP 4, PHP 5, and beyond. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:50:00 +0000 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:50:00 +0000 http://devzone.zend.com/tag/zend%20framework/format/rss2.0 en-us http://devzone.zend.com/ http://devzone.zend.com/images/devzone_logo4.gif Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:50:00 +0000 On the Xebee blog there's a recent post looking at test-driven development with the Zend Framework and PHPUnit . They show how they work well together and make it simpler to use TTD to create and test your applications. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11805-Xebee-Blog-Test-Driven-Development-with-Zend-Framework-and-PHPUnit- http://devzone.zend.com/article/11805-Xebee-Blog-Test-Driven-Development-with-Zend-Framework-and-PHPUnit- Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:47:06 +0000 The 1st Russian Zend Framework Conference ( ZFC onf 2010) will take place in Saint-Petersburg, Russia at the end of March. An initial list of topics has been decided and the conference is open for registration. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11781-1st-Russian-Zend-Framework-Conference-Announced http://devzone.zend.com/article/11781-1st-Russian-Zend-Framework-Conference-Announced Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:43:17 +0000 Full design control usually means large, thousand plus line CSS files that equal serious pain when it comes to maintenance or building upon. If you don't namespace your selectors carefully you'll end up paying for it down the road. And heaven forbid you apply a default HTML tag styling. So, ranting aside, how do you maintain flexibility and still keep tidy CSS and JavaScript? My solution is to keep the very same directory/file structure that is used for the application for my CSS and JavaScript. The best part is by writing a very simple view helper, it's super easy to automate the proper head link and script file inclusions. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11760-Managing-CSS-and-JavaScript-files-within-a-Zend-Framework-App http://devzone.zend.com/article/11760-Managing-CSS-and-JavaScript-files-within-a-Zend-Framework-App Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:06:11 +0000 Like most people with a digital camera, I tend to be a heavy Flickr user. Not only does Flickr make it easy to share my ever-growing photo collection with colleagues and family, but its drag-and-drop photo organizer and geo-tagging features make it easy to quickly categorize and find pictures from, say, my 2003 holiday in Goa. The really good stuff, though, is hidden behind the scenes. Like many Web 2.0 applications, Flickr exposes its data to the public via a REST API , making it possible to develop customized applications that run on top of the base service. This REST API allows access to a number of important functions, including photo searching, tagging and uploading; photoset retrieval; contact retrieval; and panda recommendations. It’s also pretty easy to integrate this REST API into a PHP application – and this article will show you how! http://devzone.zend.com/article/11775-Integrating-Flickr-Photostreams-with-PHP-using-the-Zend-Framework http://devzone.zend.com/article/11775-Integrating-Flickr-Photostreams-with-PHP-using-the-Zend-Framework Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:42:08 +0000 Ryan Mauger has a new post today looking at how to combine the Tidy extension for PHP and Firebug with a Zend Framework application to keep your HTML neat and valid with a handy bit of feedback for debugging. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11752-Ryan-Maugers-Blog-Keeping-your-html-valid-with-Zend-Framework-Tidy-and-Firebug http://devzone.zend.com/article/11752-Ryan-Maugers-Blog-Keeping-your-html-valid-with-Zend-Framework-Tidy-and-Firebug Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:46:44 +0000 Zend_Paginator does a great job of creating pagination for a site. In this blog post I’m demonstrating how to use Zend_Paginator to easily create pagination of Twitter tweets using Zend_Rest_Client to access the Twitter Services. As a bonus, Zend_Cache is used to store the tweets to make the process more efficient. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11740-Zend_Paginator-with-Twitter-API-and-Zend_Cache http://devzone.zend.com/article/11740-Zend_Paginator-with-Twitter-API-and-Zend_Cache Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:41:41 +0000 The next ZendCast in the user authentication with the Zend Framework's Zend_Auth has been posted to the ZendCasts.com site today. In this new screencast, they look at how to integrate it with Doctrine to automatically validate users against the information in your databases (following up on this first part of the series). http://devzone.zend.com/article/11738-ZendCasts.com-Logging-in-Users-using-Doctrine-and-Zend_Auth http://devzone.zend.com/article/11738-ZendCasts.com-Logging-in-Users-using-Doctrine-and-Zend_Auth Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:35:08 +0000 On behalf of the Zend Framework team and the framework's many contributors, I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of the stable release of Zend Framework 1.10.0. You can download it from our downloads page: http://framework.zend.com/download/latest This release includes a ton of new features (more on those below), as well as some huge changes to our documentation. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11727-Zend-Framework-1.10.0-STABLE-Released http://devzone.zend.com/article/11727-Zend-Framework-1.10.0-STABLE-Released Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:00:22 +0000 Continuing on from his previous article about making RESTful applications with the Zend Framework, Sudeer has posted the second part of the tutorial focusing on the HTTP responses back to the client. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11721-TechChorus-Blog-Create-RESTful-Applications-Using-The-Zend-Framework---Part-II-Using-HTTP-Response http://devzone.zend.com/article/11721-TechChorus-Blog-Create-RESTful-Applications-Using-The-Zend-Framework---Part-II-Using-HTTP-Response Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:35:23 +0000 New from the ZendCasts.com site today there's this new screencast looking at the integration of the Zend_Auth_Adapter component of the Zend Framework and the Doctrine ORM library to split out the authentication from the persistence layer. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11716-ZendCasts.com-Writing-a-Zend_Auth_Adapter-with-Doctrine http://devzone.zend.com/article/11716-ZendCasts.com-Writing-a-Zend_Auth_Adapter-with-Doctrine Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:51:56 +0000 In a new post to my blog , I discuss about integrating Symfony Dependency Injection Service Container with Zend Framework . Dependency Injection is an Inversion of Control specific pattern highly used and encouraged throughout Zend Framework implementation. A Dependency Injection container manages your services life-cycle, it is in charge of their instantiation, configuration and injection as shared instances: no more need to use static methods, singletons or factories for your services! http://devzone.zend.com/article/11700-Integrating-Symfony-Dependency-Injection-Service-Container-with-Zend-Framework http://devzone.zend.com/article/11700-Integrating-Symfony-Dependency-Injection-Service-Container-with-Zend-Framework Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:42:03 +0000 The Zend Framework has updated their documentation site with a very handy feature for those that may not be working with the latest version of the framework - the ability to select a version of the framework to view the documentation for. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11695-Community-News-Zend-Framework-Documentation-Now-Version-Specific http://devzone.zend.com/article/11695-Community-News-Zend-Framework-Documentation-Now-Version-Specific Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:12:46 +0000 We're entering the final stretches of the Zend Framework 1.10.0 release train: last night, we released our first release candidate (RC) for 1.10.0. You can download it from our downloads page: http://framework.zend.com/download/latest http://devzone.zend.com/article/11694-Zend-Framework-1.10.0rc1-Released http://devzone.zend.com/article/11694-Zend-Framework-1.10.0rc1-Released Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:23:25 +0000 In a new post on Chris Renner's blog , Chris discusses his experiences in implementing Zend_Registry as a stand-alone module in his appliciations. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11689-Gerrymandered-Code-Extending-Zend_Registry-to-globalize-session-vars http://devzone.zend.com/article/11689-Gerrymandered-Code-Extending-Zend_Registry-to-globalize-session-vars Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:22:00 +0000 In a new post on the Rdavid.net blog there's some discussion about Zend Framework models, the best approach and a "Service Class" idea. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11688-Rdavid.net-My-Zend-Framework-Model-Layer-Part-Service-Part-ORM http://devzone.zend.com/article/11688-Rdavid.net-My-Zend-Framework-Model-Layer-Part-Service-Part-ORM Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:10:47 +0000 The Zend Framework by Example web site has posted a new tutorial on using Zend_Date. Covering common areas of using the Zend_Date class such as time zone usage, display formatting, and even determining sunrise and sunset by location. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11636-Handling-Dates-and-Times-with-Zend_Date http://devzone.zend.com/article/11636-Handling-Dates-and-Times-with-Zend_Date Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:15:01 +0000 On Rdavid.net there's a post with the results from some tests run on hos much memory the Zend Framework and Doctrine used both with and without the APC caching. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11673-Rdavid.net-Test-Results-on-Memory-Usage-of-Zend-Framework-and-Doctrine-with-APC http://devzone.zend.com/article/11673-Rdavid.net-Test-Results-on-Memory-Usage-of-Zend-Framework-and-Doctrine-with-APC Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:27:45 +0000 Rob Allen has a quick new post for you Zend Framework users out there on how to detect if a view helper even exists before you try to use it. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11643-Rob-Allens-Blog-Determining-if-a-ZF-view-helper-exists http://devzone.zend.com/article/11643-Rob-Allens-Blog-Determining-if-a-ZF-view-helper-exists Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:39:11 +0000 Almost a month has passed since our alpha release of 1.10.0 , but the activity on the Zend Framework trunk has done anything but slow down. A number of contributors have completed features that were only near-completion during the alpha, and others have undergone further community review to add a bit of polish to their APIs. At this time, I'm happy to announce a BETA release of 1.10.0. http://framework.zend.com/download/latest http://devzone.zend.com/article/11642-Zend-Framework-1.10.0beta1-Released http://devzone.zend.com/article/11642-Zend-Framework-1.10.0beta1-Released Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:01:58 +0000 On the Blue Parabola blog, Matthew Turland writes about his experiences with Zend_Test and PHPU nit. http://devzone.zend.com/article/11628-Matthew-Turland-on-Zend_Test http://devzone.zend.com/article/11628-Matthew-Turland-on-Zend_Test