Summary: Action Helpers in Zend Framework are often considered a fairly arcane subject, something for experts only. However, they are meant to be an easy way to extend the capabilities of Action Controllers, negating the need to create your own base controller with custom functionality. The aim of this tutorial is to show you how to quickly and easily create and use Action Helpers to your advantage.

Summary: Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Rest is a route that uses URI to route the module & controller and HTTP request method to route the action.

Summary: We were talking about routing on the #zftalk IRC channel. One of the users mentioned that rather than using routes, he was using the __call method in the IndexController. I then asked him why is he doing that, as I knew routes would be more than a good choice for most kinds of URLs. I found out that he was working with SEO and he was using a very interesting URL scheme: domain.com/productname-numbers-categoryname.html

Summary: A while ago I wrote this neat little subclass of Zend_Loader to add a midgen of Dependency Injection to the Zend Framework application I was then building. After emailing the lists to propose it be fully adopted into Zend_Loader some time ago, I realised someone had proposed a novel new component called Zend_Di, and that small change was since accepted by Federico into his DI buster. This is a quick overview with very simple use cases - read the full proposal for even more gory details about your object innards using DI...

Summary: Our project for this tutorial, ZF Connections (a social networking site), will be designed in such a way that adding a functionality will be as easy as possible by extending it using a module. This tutorial assumes the reader of familiarity of PHP5 and OOP terminologies.

Summary: One could tweak Zend Framework's Router_Route to meet almost all your routing needs. But what if you want something beyond what that package can offer? You can make your routing dreams come true with making your own custom router, all you need to do is implement Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Interface (that's a mouth full).

Summary: The Conventional Modular directory structure allows you to separate different MVC applications into self-contained units, and re-use them with different front controllers.

Summary: Component Goals & Benefits, Programmer's Reference Guide, APIs, QuickStart, and Multimedia Tutorials.

Summary: Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.

Summary: The Tidy extension is new in PHP 5, and is available from PHP version 5.0b3 upward. It is based on the TidyLib library, and allows the developer to validate, repair, and parse HTML, XHTML and XML documents from within PHP. This article will introduce some of the functionality of the extension, and explain how it can be used to ratify your web documents against their respective W3C standards.

Summary: Many developers like the model of being able to programmatically create all elements on a page. An equal number like to code the HTML separately. If you are one of the ones that like to create things in code, you are going to love Zend_Form. Zend_Form gives you all the tools necessary to create forms and form elements via PHP code. Like everything in Zend Framework, almost everything is configurable; however the defaults are probably good for most uses. Zend_Form helps you by simplifying the creation of these form elements as well as adding programmatic controls for validation, ordering, filtering, and grouping.

Summary: In my previous post Zend Framework, A First Look, I discussed the lacking nature of ZF’s documentation, in particular, with regards to Zend_Form. I have since then learned that this is partly due to the fact that Zend_Form is a relatively new component. However, I still wanted to make use of Zend_Form in my current project and decided to trudge through the learning curve of creating a simple custom login form in conjunction with Zend_Config; the end result being an easy to maintain, custom form and this guide. Hopefully, this guide will make it easier for anyone else looking to take advantage of this very cool feature.

Summary: Archive for the 'Zend Framework' Category at KILLERPHP.COM, PHP Lessons for Web Designers.