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Kyle Spraggs: ZF Commons – A Zend Framework 2 organization

Kyle Spraggs has posted ZF Commons – A Zend Framework 2 organization Many web applications share features – user management, templating, ACL, blogs, etc. ZF-Commons’ goal is to to produce high-quality, reusable modules for many common tasks that web developers face. In a short post today, Kyle Spraggs encourages all ZF2 developers to help contribute to a set of modules that many applications have need off. If you're writing or planning to write ZF2 applications,… continue reading.

Posted on 1 June 2012 in Around the web

Enrico Zimuel: Cryptography made easy with Zend Framework

Enrico Zimuel has posted Cryptography made easy with Zend Framework In this post I would like to present some of the new capabilities of the ZendCrypt component. Let’s start with the main course: how to encrypt and decrypt data using strong cryptography standards. He then goes on to explain all the cool new features of ZendCrypt and ZendMath, including the use of block ciphers, bcrypt hashes and key derivation functions. Well worth a read.

Posted on 31 May 2012 in Around the web

Gary Hockin: Zend Framework 2 and a Restful Application

Gary Hockin has posted Zend Framework 2 and a Restful Application After speaking to a prospective employer in a job interview, I was interested to try out the ZendMvcControllerRestfulController. With Zend_Json_Server in ZF1 having, shall we say, a less than sterling reputation, it was very interesting for me to see how the strategy has been implemented in ZF2. Gary then explains how to change the Zend Skeleton Application to work with HTTP verbs by changing… continue reading.

Posted on 29 May 2012 in Around the web

Zend Framework 2 beta 4 released

Earlier this week, we got beta 4 of Zend Framework 2 out of the door. This version has some very significant improvements in it which mean that if you're following along at home with the betas, then you're going to be doing a bit of updating! Most of the B/C breaks are noted in this thread. I have updated my Zend Framework 2 tutorial to match this release too. The key new features for me… continue reading.

Posted on 25 May 2012 in Zend Framework, Zend Framework 2

Evan Coury: Module-specific layouts in Zend Framework 2

Evan Coury has posted Module-specific layouts in Zend Framework 2 First, I should point out that the title of this post is a bit of an intentional misnomer. There’s really no such thing as “module-specific” anything in ZF2, so what we’re really talking about is the topmost namespace of the controller being dispatched. So in the case of MyModuleControllerSomeController, the topmost namespace would be MyModle. In most cases, this will be the name of a… continue reading.

Posted on 11 May 2012 in Around the web

Vagrant in Zend Framework 1

I recently added support for vagrant to the Zend Framework codebase to enable easier testing. I was motivated by some work the joind.in folks have done to get a working development environment for joind.in development using Vagrant. Vagrant is a fantastic tool that enables you to manage and run virtual machines from the command line, including automatic provisioning of them using puppet or chef. The really cool thing about it however from my point of… continue reading.

Posted on 9 May 2012 in Zend Framework 1

Unit testing Zend Framework 1

As part of our release process for Zend Framework 1.12, I've been working through the unit tests and running them on PHP 5.2.4 as it seems that recent changes weren't being tested with that version. This isn't totally surprising as Open Source contributors are, almost by definition, interested in new things and so are much more likely to be running PHP 5.4 rather than 5.2! This is, of course, a compelling reason for using continuous… continue reading.

Posted on 30 April 2012 in Zend Framework 1

Evan Coury: Sharing a database connection across modules in Zend Framework 2

Evan Coury has posted Sharing a database connection across modules in Zend Framework 2 » Evan's Blog With the new modular infrastructure in Zend Framework 2, one of the most common questions will indoubitably be how to share a database connection across modules. Here’s a quick explanation of how to share your database connection across multiple modules in a way that can even allow you to use a single connection between ZendDb, Doctrine2, and possibly… continue reading.

Posted on 27 April 2012 in Around the web

An introduction to ZendEventManager

Zend Framework 2's EventManager is a key component of the framework which is used for the core MVC system. The EventManager allows a class to publish events that other objects can listen for and then act when the event occurs. The convention within Zend Framework 2 is that any class that triggers events composing its own EventManager. Terminology For the purposes of this article, we will use these definitions: An EventManager is an object that… continue reading.

Posted on 23 April 2012 in Zend Framework, Zend Framework 2

Getting started with Natural Load Testing

I've been following the products of WonderNetwork for a while as they do some interesting stuff with servers around the world. I particularly like Wonder VPN as a drop dead simple and reliable VPN is very handy for any mobile user who wants some security when using a wireless network in Starbucks! Recently they have been working on a new product called Natural Load Testing which is intended to make load testing your web application… continue reading.

Posted on 4 April 2012 in Review