The currencyFormat view helper is very easy to use: echo $this->currencyFormat($value, 'GBP', 'en_GB'); When I was reading the documentation for the currencyFormat view helper, I discovered that you could configure the currency code and locale once rather than in every call: // Within your view script $this->plugin("currencyformat")->setCurrencyCode("GBP")->setLocale("en_GB"); This is obviously useful, but even more useful would be if we could set it once by default and then override if we need to in a specific… continue reading.

Posted on 31 July 2013 in Zend Framework, Zend Framework 2

If you're using Zend Framework 2's Zend\Db and want to write raw SQL that returns a HydratingResultSet, then you can do this: use Zend\Db\Adapter\AdapterAwareInterface; use Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter; use Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator\ArraySerializable; use Zend\Db\ResultSet\HydratingResultSet; use Zend\Db\Adapter\DriverResultInterface; use MyEntity\MyEntity; // some sort of entity object class MyMapper implements AdapterAwareInterface { protected $dbAdapter; public function fetchRowsWithValue($fieldValue) { $sql = "SELECT * FROM my_table_name WHERE my_field_name = ? "; $params = array( $fieldValue, ); return $this->fetch($sql, $params); } protected function fetch($sql, $params… continue reading.

Posted on 24 July 2013 in Zend Framework, Zend Framework 2

If you use ZendDbSql to generate your SQL, then it's useful to find out what the generated SQL looks like. Consider code like this: public function fetchAllWithTitleSince($title, $since) { $sql = new Sql($this->dbAdapter); $select = $sql->select(); $select->from($this->tableName); $select->columns(array('id', 'title', 'url', 'date_updated')); $select->where->like('title', "%$title%"); $select->where->greaterThanOrEqualTo('date_created', date('Y-m-d', strtotime($since))); $statement = $this->dbAdapter->createStatement(); $select->prepareStatement($this->dbAdapter, $statement); return $statement->execute(); } To find out what the generated SQL will look like, you can use the $select's getSqlString() method: $select->getSqlString(); For me, this… continue reading.

Posted on 17 July 2013 in Zend Framework, Zend Framework 2

This is a short note to myself. Zend\Db\Sql objects allow you to do this: $id = 2; $select->where(array('id' => $id)); which generates the (My)SQL: WHERE `id` = '2' If you want the SQL generated to use the IN operator, then just pass in an array: $idList = array(1, 3, 4); $select->where(array('id' => $idList)); which generates: WHERE `id` IN ('1', '3', '4') This obviously also works for ZendDbSql's update() as well as select().

Posted on 15 July 2013 in Zend Framework, Zend Framework 2

Zend Framework 2's ModuleManager has the ability to cache the merged configuration information for your application. This is very useful as it allows you to separate out your configuration within the config/autoload directory into logical files without worrying about the performance implications of lots of files. Enabling caching is simply a case of setting these configuration keys in config/application.config.php within the module_listener_options section: 'module_listener_options' => array( 'config_cache_enabled' => true, 'module_map_cache_enabled' => true, 'cache_dir' => 'data/cache/',… continue reading.

Posted on 19 June 2013 in Zend Framework, Zend Framework 2

One thing you may find yourself needing to do is access configuration information in a controller or service class. The easiest way to do this is to use the ServiceManger's initialiser feature. This allows you to write one piece of injection code that can be applied to multiple objects. It's easier to show this in action! Let's assume that we have this configuration file: config/autoload/global.php: return array( 'application' => array( 'setting_1' => 234, ) );… continue reading.

Posted on 30 April 2013 in Zend Framework, Zend Framework 2

I recently had a problem with a ZF2 based website where users were reporting seeing the error page displayed, but I couldn't reproduce in testing. To find this problem I decided to log every exception to a file so I could then go back and work out what was happening. In a standard ZF2 application, the easiest way to do this is to add a listener to the 'dispatch.error' event and log using ZendLog. To… continue reading.

Posted on 24 April 2013 in Zend Framework, Zend Framework 2