A couple of weeks ago I received feedback from the Zend Framework core team about my Zend_Config proposal v1 and have finally found the time to updated the proposal accordingly. The key points with my comments interspersed were: – The Zend_Config class shall never modify configuration information in its storage containers That's ok – I never planned to do writing to ini file anyway. – The configuration information should only be allow to be modified… continue reading.

Posted on 13 May 2006 in Zend Framework 1

This bug is finally fixed in subversion revision 386 of the Zend Framework. The Zend Framework now as a bug tracker and this bug was reported in tickets #21 and #32. I noticed #36 first though, so attached the correct patch there. A little later I committed it to subversion and that bug is gone! Next up is unit tests for the Zend_Db tree. I've created ticket #36 to track my first attempt at getting… continue reading.

Posted on 7 May 2006 in Zend Framework 1

(Putting this here, mainly so that I can reference it!) There's a bug in Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract::insert(). I posted in to the mailing list and it's available here in the archives. In short, if you use the PDO drivers and have table field names with underscores in them, then you need to delete the insert() function within the class Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract.

Posted on 27 April 2006 in Zend Framework 1

Matthew Delmarter noticed a problem with Akrabat_Config. Essentially when you load a single section that overrides one item of a nested array from another section, all the other items get "lost". I've fixed it and this time thought I'd supply a zip file of the files! Akrabat_Config-0.5.zip Akrabat_Config_Tests-0.5.zip I've also updated the code so that it can support different types of config files. We now have Akrabat_Config_Abstract and Akrabat_Config_Ini. A test for the bug is… continue reading.

Posted on 25 April 2006 in Zend Framework 1

I posted a Zend Framework proposal for Zend_Config, obviously based on the work I've done so far for Akrabat_Config. The main difference from the Akrabat_Config posted here is that I've split the class into Zend_Config_Abstract and Zend_Config_Ini so that it can easily be extended to support YAML or XML or whatever other config file formats there are. The proposal is:

Posted on 18 April 2006 in Zend Framework 1

Ok, I'm dense! I've finally worked out what Nico was saying in that Akrabat_Config doesn't allow for more than one included section when using the "include=" construct. This is because parse_ini_file() will overwrite keys of the same name. Thus to support multiple sections the syntax has to be: include = one,two,three Akrabat_Config now looks like this:

Posted on 10 April 2006 in Zend Framework 1

Update: I've made the filename parameter in the constructor optional as per Nico's comment on the mailing list. I've also updated the code so that it meets the coding style There's been some more discussion about config on fw-general. Thanks all! I commented that I think the ability to load multiple ini files would be useful and suggested using an array of filename. Nico suggested: You could just put the code from the constructor in… continue reading.

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Update! This version has been superceded! Check out Akrabat_Config (Take Three!) for an even better version… Nico Edtinger was kind enough to review Akrabat_Config and pointed out that it wouldn't handle a key with multiple dots in it. His post to fw-general: One method I don't "like" is processSection(). If I have a name like "foo.bar.baz" it would be saved as $config['foo']['bar'], dropping the last part because you explode without a third parameter. It should… continue reading.

Posted on 8 April 2006 in Zend Framework 1

Update! This version has bugs! Check out Akrabat_Config (2nd Attempt) for a better version. Work has been manic, but I've finally found some time to do a bit more work on my Zend Framework test site. I've now got a concept for a simple CRUD type application that I'd like to write. It's hardly imaginative and I'm sure that there are loads of other ones out there already, but it'll do for testing stuff :)… continue reading.

Posted on 7 April 2006 in Zend Framework 1