Zend Framework Basic Tutorial

July 1st, 2010 admin Posted in PHP & MySQL No Comments »

Zend Framework is open source PHP Framework.

What is Zend Framework?

  • framework for building web faster and robust.
  • Created by the company main supporters of PHP, Zend.
  • Supporting web 2.0 and cloud computing technologies.

Why Zend Framework?

  • Free and open source framework
  • Extreme Simplicity
  • High productivity
  • Flexible Architecture
  • Supported by more than 300 contributor, include IBM and other major companies Read the rest of this entry »

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Zend Framework: Using Smarty as template engine

July 1st, 2010 admin Posted in PHP & MySQL No Comments »

Zend Framework’s View class has very bad capability for extending. It contains template variables but does not allow to access them, it has array with different pathes (templates, filters), but does not allow to add another type or access them. Therefor only way to use Smarty with Zend Framework is to abandon Zend_View and manipulate Smarty object directly. Read the rest of this entry »

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DataGrid for Zend Framework

July 1st, 2010 admin Posted in PHP & MySQL No Comments »

Top Features:

  • Doctrine Support
  • Zend_Form for CRUD operations
  • Zend_Config Support
  • Multiple Instances per page (no conflicts at all…)
  • Support for Extra Rows
  • Conditional Fields Presentation
  • Option for detailed view
  • PRG Form processing
  • Render specific parts separately (filters, titles, pagination, etc…)
  • Conditional Fields Rendering
  • jqGrid Rendering => Demo: http://zfdatagrid.com/grid/default/jqgrid
  • Open Flash Chart support => Demo: http://zfdatagrid.com/grid/default/site/ofc
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Managing Zend Framework Layouts

May 25th, 2010 admin Posted in Open source, PHP & MySQL No Comments »

One immediate benefit developers stand to gain from adopting a framework such as the Zend Framework is a final resolution on managing website layouts and pages. Gone is the need to devise strategies for important tasks such as maintaining page headers and footers, separating the bulk of a page’s logic from its interface, and managing the code repeatedly used throughout the site to carry out special formatting actions. Instead, you can just embrace the framework’s conventions and move on to the next battle. This article introduces you to some of the fundamental concepts behind managing layouts within your Zend Framework-driven applications. Read the rest of this entry »

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HowTo Fix: PhpMyAdmin Displays Blank Page After Logging In

May 4th, 2010 admin Posted in PHP & MySQL 3 Comments »

Recently I published an article about Windows Vista Home Premium and the “problems” I was running into when installing my programs. Well, this time I run into another problem when I installed appserv-win32-2.6.0 . Everything seemed to work just fine, Apache was working well, but when I tried opening PhpMyAdmin for some reason it was displaying a blank page after I entered my login information Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins

April 15th, 2010 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, Design and Layout, JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials, Open source, PHP & MySQL No Comments »

For moderately sized sites (including simple e-Commerce sites), WordPress does a pretty good job as a CMS, making it easy to maintain your site, and update your content. Of course, it does this best with the help of a good theme, and some great plugins. The strength of WordPress is the community of developers who have already done almost anything you can think of with it. Here are the best plugins we’ve run across, the ones we install for nearly all of our client’s sites. Read the rest of this entry »

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First steps within the Zend Framework

January 13th, 2010 admin Posted in PHP & MySQL No Comments »

Setup a quick Yahoo Search page within a few minutes!

A few days ago the “old” Google web search API has stopped working for the web public. Not a big surprise after the release of the AJAX web search API. A customer of mine is using search results in his mini sites to give them a little more body. This is why I needed to look for some alternative. During the Zend PHP conference earlier this year, I got in touch with the Zend framework and learned that there is already a class to obtain results from the Yahoo search engine. The class has features to search the Yahoo API for web sites, image, news and the local search results. Read the rest of this entry »

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Creating a Shopping Cart using Zend Framework

January 11th, 2010 admin Posted in PHP & MySQL No Comments »

In this two-part article series by Keith Pope, we will learn about:

  • Creating Models that do not use a database as a data source
  • Using Zend_Session_Namespace
  • Implementing the Cart Views and Controllers
  • More Forms, View Helpers, and so on Read the rest of this entry »

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Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework

January 11th, 2010 admin Posted in PHP & MySQL No Comments »

 

List Tutorial build projects with Zend Framework

Table of Contents for Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework

  1. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 1
  2. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 2
  3. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 3
  4. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework Part 4
  5. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 5
  6. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 6
  7. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 7
  8. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 8
  9. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 9
  10. Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 10
  11. ZF Community/CMS Bugfixes

Update: Since writing this series I have chosen to not work with Zend DB anymore, I’m using PHP Doctrine instead, I have also thrown out Smarty in favor of H2O. Doctrine is a proper ORM which is far superior in functionality to Zend DB, and H2O feels like a much cleaner and more modern templating solution than Smarty.

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Zend Framework: models auto-loading

November 4th, 2009 admin Posted in PHP & MySQL No Comments »

Zend Framework (ZF) is the MVC framework. Of course you can use its components in a non-MVC way (and I actually do so in my WP UMapper plugin), but in that case, I suppose, you do not have to worry about models auto-loading. Read the rest of this entry »

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