While chatting to a friend and mentioning that my work on the book included diagrams, he somehow thought that included the cover. So just for clarification; I had no part in the cover other than choosing from a selection of […]
On the Zend Framework mailing list Jurriën Stutterheim asked for thoughts on his blog post PHP… what to say?. I started replying to the list but found I’d written so much that it was better to clutter up my own […]
Since Rob has beaten me to the punch, the only thing left for me to do is put up a pretty picture of the cover so you can see what has occupied the time I may or may not have […]
I know my blog is watched mainly for its Zend Framework content so I should mention that I have an article up on Zend Developer Zone entitled Zend Framework and the New Hybrid Designer. It will likely be preaching to […]
Simon Mundy has written up a well-worth-reading Zend_Acl / Zend_Auth example scenario in which he illustrates setting up authorisation and access privileges with the Zend Framework.
Anyone looking for a good comprehensive run through of a Zend Framework application should read Rob Allen’s My Take on a Zend Framework Tutorial. As it’s a PDF, you might like to read it using this trick from Jon Udell: […]
While getting the hang of the Zend_Controller_RewriteRouter, which is now included in Zend Framework 0.1.5, I was adding the routes in my index.php (bootstrap) file and wondered if there was any way of storing them elsewhere. It is possible to […]
Now that the host for underwater.com.au has upgraded to PHP5 I’m working on migrating it to use the Zend Framework. I thought it may be interesting to run through a few of the reasons I’ve chosen to do so especially […]
The Zend Framework Manual describes View Helpers like so: “In your view scripts, often it is necessary to perform certain complex functions over and over; e.g., formatting a date, generating form elements, or displaying action links. You can use helper […]
Like many other PHP developers I’m keeping an eye on the progress of the Zend Framework. It’s currently still in the very early stages of development but is nonetheless worth “getting to know”. These are some notes from a play […]