The basic usage of Zend_Filter_Input is: $filters = array('body' => array('StringTrim' , 'StripTags')); $validators = array('body' => 'Alpha'); $input = new Zend_Filter_Input($filters, $validators, $_POST); if ($input->isValid()) { // do something with form } else { // failed validation $messages = $input->getMessages(); // iterate though $messages to display to user } The problem is that the message you get out isn't always written as you would like. Consider the output if the body record is empty.… continue reading.

Posted on 14 September 2007 in Zend Framework 1

I've finally updated the source code to my Zend Framework tutorial so that the hidden field in the form is named "id" rather than "ID". A minor error that meant that editing didn't work! This is because in PHP $_POST['id'] is not the same as $_POST['ID']! Whilst I was poking around the source code, I also changed the Zend Auth tutorial to use $db rather than $dbAdapter so that it is consistent with the first… continue reading.

Posted on 2 September 2007 in Zend Framework 1

I've finally got around to updating the Zip file on the tutorial page! This time, I've created two files: one with the Zend Framework (1.0.1) included and one without. The one without is much smaller at only 9KB, where as with the Framework, the zip is 2.2MB. The links are: Zip file of tutorial (~9KB) Zip file of tutorial including ZF1.0.1 (~2.2MB) I've also updated the tutorial itself to 1.4.4. This is a really minor… continue reading.

Posted on 11 August 2007 in Zend Framework 1

A couple of new translations of my Zend Framework tutorial have crossed my desk in the last week. Kubek Bartosz has very kindly created a new up to date Polish version of my Zend Framework tutorial. Alex Musayev has created a Russian translation too. I say this a lot, but I really am still amazed that people think that my little tutorial is worth the effort of translating. Thank you very much guys. I'm sure… continue reading.

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Paulo Nei wrote an email to fw-general which is, I suspect a very common issue that people are going to run into: Hi, I wanna put header & footer in all view templates. But with ZF I don't got an easy way to do it … At the moment, the Zend Framework doesn't have an "officially blessed" solution, so there are multiple approaches being used: 1. Front Controller plug-in. http://www.nabble.com/Controller-and-View-Question-tf3462561.html 2. Zend_Layout proposal. http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Layout 3.… continue reading.

Posted on 11 July 2007 in Zend Framework 1