Zend Framework in Action

Usually I only point out interesting Zend Framework articles, but with ZF 2.0 requiring PHP 5.3 and using namespaces extensively, I thought this would be useful.A few days ago, Nick Belhomme has posted a good introductory article on PHP 5.3′s namespaces.

I really feel it is time that php developers are taking namespaces seriously. If you don’t I guarantee you will be out of a job within five years. Namespaces are a fundamental part of the future of PHP.

He goes through how to use namespace and provides the source code to a small project that demonstrates the concepts and then provides a detailed look at the code so that you should have a good grasp by the end of the article.

Go and read it now!

Posted by Rob on 28th July 2010 under Around the web | 1 Comment »

Andrei Gabreanu is writing a multi-part tutorial series on Zend Framework that will develop an application with ZF 1.10.

These are a series of tutorials which are meant to show you or guide you through developing a complex application with Zend Framework 1.10.

The series consists of the following parts:

1. Setting up a module based application
2. Setting up helper plugins, methods & debugging with ZFDebug
3. Setting up a login page and signup page with captcha
4. Setting up OpenID to login/create account
5. Setting up an API to create/login an account
6. Improving performance implementing Zend Cache

At the time of writing, he has got as far as part 3 and it’s well worth a read.

Posted by Rob on 15th July 2010 under Around the web | Comments Off

There’s been a discussion on the Zend Framework mailing lists about how to capitalise acronyms when used in class names.

i.e. Zend\PDF or Zend\Pdf; Zend\XMLRPC or Zend\XmlRpc?

Matthew and the ZF team have decided that this issue needs to be sorted and so he posted recently:

Our team is at a point where we actually think the important thing is to simply have a rule. As such, we’re leaving it up to you, our users, to decide.

Simply fill out this form:

http://short.ie/zf-acrocase

We’ll close it in a week or so, and use the decision from that form to determine how to proceed. We even promise to publicly export the results, in the interest of transparency.

So, help choose the direction of ZF2 today!

So, if you use Zend Framework, please take the time to answer the question!

Posted by Rob on 11th July 2010 under Around the web | 3 Comments »