Spanish versions too!
I am a little late in announcing this as my email inbox is overflowing and I missed the mail :( Claudio Cossio has translated both my Zend Framework tutorial and my Zend Auth Tutorial into Spanish! Thanks very much Claudio.
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Would have made me laugh…
.. if I didn't identify so much with it. This was written in 2002, but is very relevant to my job today. If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers
Zend_Auth tutorial in French
Just a quick heads up to let you know that the team at developpez.com have created a French version of my Zend_Auth tutorial. The French version of my tutorial, Débutez avec le Zend Framework, has also been updated in line with the 1.4.0. version. Thanks guys!
Notes on using Oracle with my tutorial
William Graham has been playing with the Zend Framework and Oracle using my tutorial. His notes are very useful if you want to get my admittedly MySQL-centric tutorial working with Oracle. I've come across that uppercase field name thing before in an application I wrote at work that needed to transfer some data from Oracle to SQL Server. Took me a while to work out what was going on. I'm a little confused about the… continue reading.
Extending ViewRenderer to Support Layout Templates
Contrary to what my tutorial says, I'm one of those people that doesn't want to have to render my common header and footer templates in every single view script file. I prefer a standard site-wide layout script file that will display the content of the action script files within it. The Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_ViewRenderer action helper is a great bit of code that automates rendering a view template based on which action has been called. This is… continue reading.
Tutorial 1.4.0
Zend Framework 1.0.0. RC1 is out and with it a new action helper called ViewRenderer. This is a great action helper that handles the View integration with the Controller. As as result, the controller action functions are simpler and so I've updated my tutorial to reflect this. It's not a big change though: just remove all calls to $this->render() and $this->initView() in the controller!
