Edge Side Includes without Varnish

Development on websites when the product will run on a Varnish'ed' production environment can be a pain in the ass. The xml tag that can be used to define Edge Side Includes can't be parsed by a standard browser. While developing you often look at a half rendered website implementation. This is something you really don't want!

Zend_Log timestamp filter

For one of my recent project, which is using Zend_Log component of the Zend Framework, I had a demand in which I needed to be able to filter log events based on the time they occurred. As out of the box, Zend_Log component does not have such filter, I decided to create one that will fulfill my demands.

Zend Config tree solution

The best part of my favorite PHP framework, Zend framework is Zend_Config. With Zend Config you can run you web application with more power full configuration that any one can change your application setting for use. Read more information about Zend Config at Zend framework manual for Zend Config. But in most web application you may have many configuration file with special format such as INI , XML or PHP . Also some of configuration is for one part of your application and may you put in special folders.

Zend Framework Tutorial Series: Part 2 – Debugging your application

Continuing with the tutorial series, we will see how to debug the application we created in the #1 series of the tutorials. In case you missed it, in our first tutorial, we have seen how to structure and code a brand new ZF application to use modules (you can also view that article here ) Debugging include easy to use methods of printing data on the screen, including ZFDebug Toolbar in order to manage all errors and queries, using the logger to log messages to Firebug, using a simple debug function that will place debug messages in your ZFDebug Toolbar, in a special Debug panel, using a redirect debug function in order to see what is happening during your requests, using redirect in a Controller plugin.

Zend Framework Module Based Application

In this first article of the series, we will discuss about the best way (in my opinion) to structure your Zend Application in order to have maximum flexibility but also a good defined structure of the classes/files. These will be a series of tutorials which are meant to show you or guide you through developing a complex application with Zend Framework 1.10. The series consists of the following parts: a) Setting up a module based application b) Setting up helper plugins, methods & debugging with ZFDebug c) Setting up a login page and signup page with captcha d) Setting up OpenID to login/create account e) Setting up an API to create/login an account f) Improving performance implementing Zend Cache

Chris Hartjes' Blog: Testing Controllers Hiding Behind Zend_Auth

On his blog today Chris Hartjes has a new post about testing your Zend Framework application's functionality that lives behind a Zend_Auth authentication.

Web Builder Zone: Zend_Test for Acceptance TDD

On the Web Builder Zone (of DZone ) Giorgio Sironi has posted an article looking at the Zend_Test component of the Zend Framework and how to use it for acceptance test-driven development .

PHPBuilder.com: Managing Zend Framework Layouts

On PHPBuilder.com there's a new tutorial on layouts in Zend Framework applications. The tools the framework gives you makes things much simpler when it comes to changing layouts and updating the general structure of your site.

Zend Framework Routing with XML

If you use Zend Framework you probably used the initRoutes() function in your Initializer.php to create nice URI's and creating some different routing in your application. To create a customized route for your application you can use the Zend_Controller_Router_Route class from the Zend Framework. If you use the common syntax you have to repeatedly build routes in code for all routes in your application. This makes it not maintainable for programmers. To fix this problem we are going to use a XML file with all routing information.

Content with Style: LinkedIn and Zend_Oauth

New from the Content with Style blog today there's a quick tutorial showing how to connect an application to LinkedIn with the Zend_Ouath component.

Mihai Crolan: Debugging Flex and PHP

From Mihai Corlan’s blog: As your projects grow in size and more people get involved you’ll find yourself fixing more and more bugs. When this happens, one of the best friends a developer has is the debugger. In this paper, I’ll talk about some of the workflows and tools you can use to debug Flex and PHP projects. If you want to try the steps outlined here for yourself, you’ll need Flash Builder 4, a PHP and MySQL server ( MAMP or WAMP will do just fine), Eclipse PDT , and XDebug.

Michelangelo van Dam's Blog: Zend Framework context switching for HTML content

Michelangelo van Dam has a new post to his blog today looking a a method for doing some context switching in his Zend Framework application to use jQuery in his app's static HTML output.

ZendCasts.com: Ajaxify Your Zend_Form Validation with jQuery

New from ZendCasts.com there's a screencast that will help you ajaxify your Zend_Form instance with the help of jQuery .

Flex and Zend Framework - Part 1

It would be a fair statement to say that I have not paid attention to Flash for several years. Obviously I know that those awesome interfaces for movie web sites are made in flash, as are those annoying video ads that start screaming at you as soon as you load up a page, competing with Megadeth on Rhapsody, cranked out on the 700 watts of power I have in my office. But the last time I really looked seriously at Flash was almost a decade ago and I was thrilled at tweening widgets from one place to another. Unfortunately, there's not really any benefit to tweening a text box. Cool? Yes. Practical? No. So I never really picked it up. Plus I was cheap. That is the reason why I had not really been paying attention to Flash for the past several years. I generally don't look into something if it's cool. I look into something if it is practical. Flash, generally, is meant to be, well, flashy. And it is. But for someone such as myself, I didn't think I had much of a reason to pay attention. Until now...

Brandon Savage's Blog: Making Zend_Navigation Useful

As a follow-up to his previous post on Zend_Navigation Brandon Savage takes a look at how to make it more useful by using some of the methods that come bundled with the component.

Brandon Savage's Blog: The Adventures Of Merging Propel With Zend Framework

In a new post to his blog Brandon Savage takes a quick loook at hos he integrated Propel into a Zend Framework app he'd built to replace an older site.

Ibuildings techPortal: Zend Studio formatted for Zend Framework and ATK

On the Ibuildings techPortal site today Ivo Jansch takes a look at a type formatter they've created to work with Zend Studio to more correctly format your code as per the official coding standard for the Zend Framework.

Brandon Savage's Blog: Learning Zend Framework: A Case Study

Recently Brandon Savage has been really getting into the Zend Framework and creating applications with it. He, like many other developers just starting out with this framework, has had his share of frustrations. In the latest post to his blog Brandon looks at some of these first steps and what he's learned from them.

DZone.com: Q&A with Jason Gilmore: The Zend Framework

On DZone.com today there's a new interview by Lyndsey Clevesy with Jason Gilmore looking at the Zend Framework and some of the general things to expect in coming versions.

Ben Scholzen's Blog: Modern Application Design - Part 1

Ben Scholzen has started a serial about modern appication design on his blog. As base of this serial he is using his blog source for demonstration.