Pragmatism in the real world
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.
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.
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!
I updated Zend_Config to close a couple of issues today: ZF-1417: Add get() accessor to allow default values from a config node ZF-1461: Deprecated method Zend_Config::toArray() still in use Note that fixing ZF-1461 means that asArray() no longer exists and you now need to use toArray()!
I seem to just be posting about translations of my tutorial at the moment, and I've yet more news on that front! Stig Benning has translated the Getting Started Tutorial into Danish! He asked a few days ago and then emailed me the finished translation a couple of days later. Thanks very much Stig. Also, Daniel Messer has updated the German translation to sync it with the latest version which is great. Daniel wrote the… continue reading.
Sorry that it's been a bit quiet around here recently. It's been manic at work (more than usual!) but hopefully that's behind me for a few weeks now. I'm sure everyone who reads this blog is probably up to date with what's happening in the PHP world, so I won't repeat it all here, as you can just wander over to Planet PHP anyway! In the Zend Framework world, Pádraic has written an interesting set… continue reading.
My tutorial is now available in French thanks to Guillaume Rossolini! Thank you very much Guillaume for your hard work.
Just a quick heads up to let you know that that Jason Qi has published the Simplified Chinese version of my Getting Started with Zend Auth tutorial. You can find the PDF on his download site. Thanks Jason. Jason and others have also spotted a few issues with the tutorial, so I have updated it and we are now at version 1.0.4! Thanks guys for pointing out the issues so that the tutorial makes more… continue reading.
I've been asked a couple of questions via email that I think are probably worth answering here, just in case others are wondering the same thing! 1) Why did you change the functionality of the BaseURL? You moved the BaseURL to the IndexController and in the previous version it was in the Bootstrap. The main reason I did this is that the new MVC code works out the base URL for us in the request… continue reading.
Having promised that I'd look into a tutorial for Zend_Auth ages and ages ago, I've finally managed to get one together… Note that this tutorial only covers Zend_Auth; Zend_Acl will have to be the topic for another one at some point in the future! As always, if you have any comments (especially corrections!) then please let me know. Who knows? Maybe we won't need 30 revisions to catch all the typos this time! Update That… continue reading.
