Pragmatism in the real world
No doubt everyone who reads this blog already knows that Zend Framework 1.0 has been released. My code contribution isn't very large, but I am nevertheless very happy that Zend_Config "just works" for loading and reading configuration data. The MVC system within Zend Framework has come on by leaps and bounds since the first public release and is now flexible, robust and easy to use. One part of the MVC jigsaw that is missing is… continue reading.
I am a little late in announcing this as my email inbox is overflowing and I missed the mail :( Claudio Cossio has translated both my Zend Framework tutorial and my Zend Auth Tutorial into Spanish! Thanks very much Claudio.
.. if I didn't identify so much with it. This was written in 2002, but is very relevant to my job today. If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers
Just a quick heads up to let you know that the team at developpez.com have created a French version of my Zend_Auth tutorial. The French version of my tutorial, Débutez avec le Zend Framework, has also been updated in line with the 1.4.0. version. Thanks guys!
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.
