Top Tip: XHTML with Zend Form Elements

When you render a Zend_Form, the elements will render to HTML compliance rather than XHTML compliance, even if you have < ?php echo $this->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');?> at the top of your layout script. Practically, this means that all the input elements do not end in "/>". To resolve this, you need to call the doctype() view helper prior to rendering your form. Within my projects, I do this within a front controller plug-in called ViewSetup that looks… continue reading.

Posted on 29 May 2008 in Zend Framework 1

Simple Zend_Form File Upload Example Revisited

I've been thinking about the Simple Zend_Form File Upload Example that I discussed last month. To recap, if you haven't read the comments, if the form fails to validate for some reason then you get a nasty error: Warning: htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /Users/rob/Sites/akrabat/Zend_Form_FileUpload_Example/lib/Zend/View/Abstract.php on line 786 Essentially, what is happening is that the App_Form_Element_File class that we wrote assigns the $_FILES array to the $value parameter for the… continue reading.

Posted on 16 May 2008 in Zend Framework 1

A review of "Learning PHP Data Objects"

Packt Publishing recently sent me a couple of books to review. This post is about the second one I received, Learning PHP Data Objects by Dennis Popel. I was excited to receive this book as PDO underlies a lot of the Zend_Db_Adapter objects that I use in my day to day programming. It seemed like a good idea that I should know more about it. Overview of the book This book starts out introducing PDO… continue reading.

Posted on 4 May 2008 in Review

A review of "Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5"

Packt Publishing recently sent me a couple of books to review, so let's start with Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5 by Hasin Hayder. According to the introduction, the book is intended for beginners to intermediate PHP5 programmers and the first chapter has a good introduction to what object oriented programming is and why you would want to use it. Overview of the book Chapters two and three of the book are an excellent discussion of how… continue reading.

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