Most of you will be familiar with the problem that of every HTML page you generate, only a certain part changes from page to page. For instance, on this very website (which has been created using wordpress) only the posts differ from page to page. The head section is the same on every page, as [...]
Now that JavaScript based sites are on the rise again, I have noticed that a lot of people serve their JavaScript and CSS uncompressed. With the discussion about all those nifty JavaScript libraries out there reaching an all time high, the fact that you can easily reduce file size by over two thirds should not [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]