It turns out that there are hardly any changes required to make the tutorial code compatible with version 0.2 of the Zend Framework! The only changes I had to make were to the index.php file. The two changes needed were: Zend_Config construction You now create a Zend_Config_Ini directly: $config = new Zend_Config_Ini('./application/config.ini', 'general'); is all that's needed now! Front Controller instantiation For the original tutorial, I needed a special route for compatibility. This is now… continue reading.

Posted on 4 November 2006 in Zend Framework 1

Version 0.2 of the Zend Framework has been released. I'll be updating my tutorial shortly – as soon as I have some spare time!

Posted on 31 October 2006 in Zend Framework 1

It is now possible to load multiple sections into a Zend_Config :) The inheritence mechanism in the INI files has also changed to remove it from the data space and into the section name space. As a bonus, whilst doing them, I managed to remove a lot of rendundant code from Zend_Config_Ini and so it's now much easier to understand how it works. To load multiple sections just pass in an array to the $section… continue reading.

Posted on 19 October 2006 in Zend Framework 1

A week or so ago, I got a chance to sit down (on IM) with Darby and look at the outstanding issues for Zend_Config. We went through the all open issues and the items on the wiki page to ensure we knew what was intended for 0.2. As a result, I filed a few issues with the issue tracker to enhance Zend_Config and note possible bugs. Essentially, the enhancements are: ZF-352. Change the way INI… continue reading.

Posted on 9 October 2006 in Zend Framework 1

I'm extremely pleased to announce that there is now a German translation of my Zend Framework Tutorial. I'm still gob-smacked that someone thinks that it's good enough to be worth translating and am very grateful to Daniel Messer for doing it! He intends to host the German version himself when he has his web site organised, so that will be the place to find the latest version and to comment on issues specific to the… continue reading.

Posted on 17 September 2006 in Zend Framework 1

Last night, the West Midlands PHP User Group met at The Swan pub in Worcester for some food and a chat. One of the discussions we started, but didn't finish was on directory structures and I thought I'd write down my current thoughts. The Top Level I like to keep everything within a project root directory and the top level directories are quite easy to define: project-dir/ app/ lib/ tmp/ scripts/ www/ Let's consider these… continue reading.

Posted on 15 September 2006 in Zend Framework 1

Another minor update with some more bugs fixed. Thanks Holger and Develucas! I've also added an explicit note that the tutorial only works with version 0.1.5 of the Zend Framework. Supporting the development trunk from subversion would be too much work for me! I intend to have a good look at the whole rewrite base thing and see if I can work out what does and doesn't work.

Posted on 10 September 2006 in Zend Framework 1

Tomorrow, I go to a (hopefully) final meeting with my client to wrap up the deployment of my first Zend Framework application. It's gone very smoothly as a project all in all and is all over bar the shouting. So what have I learned? In no particular order: Automatic rendering of the template from within the Action's destructor is more hassle than it's worth! It's better to have a render() method and called $this->render() at… continue reading.

Posted on 7 September 2006 in Zend Framework 1

I've updated my Zend Framework tutorial to 1.0.1 to fix all the minor errors that people have found. Thanks guys for letting me know! I guess it just goes to prove that that I'm not that good at proof-reading :)

Posted on 18 August 2006 in Zend Framework 1