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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20 Great PHP Libraries You Need to Know

October 25th, 2009 admin Posted in Open source, PHP & MySQL No Comments »

You’re in the middle of a project, and need to get everything done as soon as possible. To keep the deadline and still have a life, you would better to collect this awesome library on your fingertip. By knowing this library capability, then you’ll know when to use any of them. Read the rest of this entry »

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