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Three years of my Zend Framework Tutorial

Three years ago today, I published my first Getting Started with Zend Framework tutorial. This was the announcement. Back then, Zend Framework was at version 0.1.5 and a considerably smaller download than now :)

Three years later and I haven't lost my enthusiasm for Zend Framework as you can tell since the latest version of the tutorial supports ZF 1.8 and 1.9 and uses the new features like Zend_Application and the command line Zend_Tool scripts. And I wrote a Zend Framework book!

I wonder what will happen in the next three years?!

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21 Responses to “Three years of my Zend Framework Tutorial”

  1. 1 Sergey
    August 16th, 2009 at 07:36 #

    Rob, your ZF-tutorial is the greatest tutorial for beginners! Thank you.

  2. 2 Rick
    August 16th, 2009 at 11:46 #

    Oh, I know exactly what will happen.

    Every few weeks/months Zend Framework will be updated with something awesome, that will have you updating the tutorial. This cycle will continue until ZF becomes sentient and starts generating it's own tutorials. Zend_Tool_Tutorial will become the first non-human author to appear in print.

    Shortly after that Zend_Tool_Tutorial will be deprecated since Zend_Tool_Consultant will make ZF developers obsolete and we'll all be out of a job.

    Seriously, don't you sometimes wish ZF's development would slow down a bit? ;-)

  3. 3 Raynor
    August 18th, 2009 at 05:49 #

    Congratulations! Ans thanks for the your great tutorials, a lot of people started learn ZF with them :)

  4. 4 zivee
    August 19th, 2009 at 16:22 #

    Thank you for your great zf tutorial!

  5. 5 John Nunez
    August 20th, 2009 at 03:52 #

    Rob! Congrats and thanks! You made it easy to pick up ZF.

  6. 6 Ryan Mauger
    August 21st, 2009 at 07:39 #

    Great work Rob!

    Hopefully the last big rewrite you will need to do in the next 3 years will be for 2.0!

    You have provided a truly valuable resource to many people getting to grips with ZF, so consider yourself patted on the back!

  7. 7 Erdal YAZICIOGLU
    August 22nd, 2009 at 12:54 #

    It was really pleasure learning ZF from your tutorial and your book.

    Thanks a lot

  8. 8 Danny Froberg
    August 24th, 2009 at 18:32 #

    Rob,
    Your stuff really helps beginners out!
    /Danny

  9. 9 ronnystalker
    August 24th, 2009 at 23:49 #

    yes...well done Rob. I don't think Zend Framework would be as successful as it is without your tutorials. We'd all still be scrabbling around in the mud!

    Hands up who hasn't followed Rob's tutorials.....I rest my case

  10. 10 Marcus
    August 25th, 2009 at 19:56 #

    Great tutorial - helped me a lot! I also bought your book. Unfortunately many things have changed in ZF, so please update the book for version 2.0. As a newbie you never know how you should name this and that in the latest version and this is really a nightmare. Why are there so few tutorials online? I think Zend really should put some more work into building more tutorials for starters. The quick start is a joke.

  11. 11 Marcus
    August 25th, 2009 at 19:59 #

    by the way: how about updating your zend_auth tutorial?

  12. 12 Hari K T
    August 26th, 2009 at 10:34 #

    Yes, you are right . Every php developers may be looking forward to see what will happen in the coming years .
    Though there are many frameworks for PHP many are learning Zend Framework for its the PHP company that supports it.

  13. 13 Erdal YAZICIOGLU
    August 27th, 2009 at 16:11 #

    Rob

    We need a Ajax and ZF tutorial badly :)

    Keep clicking :)

  14. 14 Rob...
    August 28th, 2009 at 21:26 #

    Marcus,

    It's on my list... the list is just so long though :(

    Rob...

  15. 15 Cliff
    August 30th, 2009 at 23:55 #

    > I wonder what will happen in the next three years?!

    You'll finally learn perl? :)

  16. 16 Rob...
    August 31st, 2009 at 16:15 #

    Cliff,

    Don't hold your breath!

    Rob...

  17. 17 Allan Mercado
    September 4th, 2009 at 03:51 #

    Hi Rob!

    Your tutorials are great and I read the ZFiA cover to cover a couple of times :)

    I have a question about the Places website example. I've based a site on what I've learned from that site but there is something I can't figure out.

    When a user logs in, we start a session with Zend_Auth. How do you control the timeout value for that session? I've searched the web and found snippets of code to change timeout values, but none of them seem to work with the login/auth examples you provided. Can you share some insight on what I would have to do to determine what that timeout is and how to change it so my users don't timeout due to inactivity as often?

    Thanks so much!!!
    Allan

  18. 18 Rob...
    September 6th, 2009 at 08:22 #

    Allan,

    It's a PHP session underneath, so the php.ini variables session.gc_maxlifetime and session.save_path are relevant.

    For a specific app, you can do something like this in an _init() function within your Bootstrap:

    e.g.

    
$timeout = 7200; // 2hours
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', $timeout);

$dir = ini_get('session.save_path').PATH_SEPARTOR.'mysite';
if (!is_dir($dir)) { mkdir($dir, 0777); }
ini_set('session.save_path', $dir);

    Regards,

    Rob...

  19. 19 Cany
    September 21st, 2009 at 17:44 #

    Please help!!! I am stuck
    When I run the tutorial website using the ZendFramework, I am getting this error, "The mysql driver is not currently installed"
    I am using:
    Apache2.2
    PHP5.3
    latest ZendFramework version

    Message: The mysql driver is not currently installed

    Stack trace:
    #0 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Db\Adapter\Pdo\Mysql.php(96): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->_connect()
    #1 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Db\Adapter\Abstract.php(448): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql->_connect()
    #2 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Db\Adapter\Pdo\Abstract.php(238): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query('DESCRIBE `album...', Array)
    #3 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Db\Adapter\Pdo\Mysql.php(156): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->query('DESCRIBE `album...')
    #4 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Db\Table\Abstract.php(814): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql->describeTable('albums', NULL)
    #5 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Db\Table\Abstract.php(857): Zend_Db_Table_Abstract->_setupMetadata()
    #6 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Db\Table\Abstract.php(964): Zend_Db_Table_Abstract->_setupPrimaryKey()
    #7 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Db\Table\Select.php(100): Zend_Db_Table_Abstract->info()
    #8 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Db\Table\Select.php(78): Zend_Db_Table_Select->setTable(Object(Model_DbTable_Albums))
    #9 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Db\Table\Abstract.php(1000): Zend_Db_Table_Select->__construct(Object(Model_DbTable_Albums))
    #10 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Db\Table\Abstract.php(1286): Zend_Db_Table_Abstract->select()
    #11 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\application\controllers\IndexController.php(16): Zend_Db_Table_Abstract->fetchAll()
    #12 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Controller\Action.php(513): IndexController->indexAction()
    #13 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Controller\Dispatcher\Standard.php(289): Zend_Controller_Action->dispatch('indexAction')
    #14 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Controller\Front.php(946): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
    #15 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Application\Bootstrap\Bootstrap.php(77): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch()
    #16 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\library\Zend\Application.php(346): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap->run()
    #17 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\zf-tutorial\public\index.php(26): Zend_Application->run()
    #18 {main} Request Parameters:
    array (
    'controller' => 'index',
    'action' => 'index',
    'module' => 'default',
    )

  20. 20 Cany
    September 21st, 2009 at 17:45 #

    There are no errors in my Apache error logs.

  21. 21 taosheng
    November 3rd, 2009 at 09:31 #

    to Cany: you can install the PDO-MYSQL driver lonely or you can recompile your php server with proper parameter.

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