We all have to optimize, sometimes. Most people hate it, and for good reasons. There’s a real trade-off between code readability and clarity versus optimization. To get information on how your scripts are performing you’ll need to run software like xdebug. That works fine, especially during development.
But sometimes you just want some quick info on [...]
Because I noticed some people find it difficult to understand the routing process the Zend Framework uses by default, I decided to write a little explanation. It’s really easy once you get the hang of it, even though it may seem complicated at first.
The Zend Framework is based on the Model View Controller principle. This [...]
This article is very old. I’m keeping it here for legacy reasons, but if you’re looking for help setting up Zend Framework, google is your friend.
I would like to take some time to talk about setting up the Zend Framework. It’s a lot easier than you might think. I know there are quite a few [...]
In the first three parts of this tutorial I talked about designing your models and controllers. In this fourth part I’m going to take a look at views. Views are the final part of a MVC application. They contain code that will create the output of the application.
For most of you this will mean that [...]
When I started writing this tutorial I mentioned that I assumed you had the Zend Framework running on your server. I may have falsely assumed that you had a working bootstrap file for it as well. Writing a simple bootstrap file isn’t that difficult, but there are many things you can add to it, some [...]
Web development has become a lot easier with the rise of frameworks and libraries that help you with common tasks. On the server side there’s PEAR, CakePHP, Symfony and the Zend Framework, amongst others. For the client you can choose from YUI, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Ext JS and many, many more. All these libraries and frameworks [...]
In part one of my tutorial for a zend framework application I talked about creating a general design for your application. If you’re following my approach, you should by now have in your possession some kind of document with requirements for your application. You should also have a diagram with the basic layout of your [...]
Some of the code in this tutorial (all four parts) does not work with version 1 of the framework. Especially the part on rendering views has changed.
After reading many tutorials, I decided it was time to write one myself. Not because the ones out there are bad, most of them are really good reads, and [...]
In this post I would like to write a little about application development for the modern web. There are a lot of tutorials out there that deal with specific implementations of (parts of) applications. But I want to go a little further. Instead of looking at how to implement things, I would like to start at the absolute beginning.