Archive for April, 2010

Reporting with Zend_Tool and Zend_

29 April, 2010

Jon Leben­sold posts a con­tin­u­a­tion to his screen­cast on Zend_tool; Report­ing with Zend_Tool and Zend_Log
This video uses a col­lec­tion of pow­er­ful PHP libraries in order to illus­trate how easy it really is to build a command-line tool for report­ing against XML files. We start off by log­ging vis­i­tor sta­tis­tics in the controller […]

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Zend Framework 1.10.4 Released — Notably Zend_Amf 200–300% faster

29 April, 2010

On behalf of the Zend Frame­work com­mu­nity, I’m pleased to announce the imme­di­ate avail­abil­ity of Zend Frame­work 1.10.4, our fourth main­te­nance release in the 1.10 series. You can down­load it from our down­loads page:
http://framework.zend.com/download/latest
This release includes approx­i­mately 50 bug­fixes, the major­ity of which were con­tributed dur­ing our Bug Hunt Days two weeks ago. The fixes contributed […]

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Integrating Zend_Tool Into Your Application

23 April, 2010

Jon Leben­sold shows you how to use the Zend Tool in use­ful ways; This screen­cast should help you setup Zend_Tool in your Zend Frame­work appli­ca­tion. Zend_Tool is a com­mand line entry point into your appli­ca­tion. Cur­rently, Zend_Tool is used to scaf­fold (build generic files) the Zend Frame­work project struc­ture, mod­ules, controllers, […]

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Ajaxify Your Zend_Form Validation with jQuery

16 April, 2010

Jon Leben­sold posts an update to his excel­lent screen­cast; We’re going to take what was put together in the last 3 videos and now include some server-side val­i­da­tion that will appear asyn­chro­nously. This is an exam­ple of using Zend_Form as a val­i­da­tion tool via JSON.
Grab a copy of the project or browse […]

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An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows

9 April, 2010

This doc­u­ment is designed to show that using git on Win­dows is not a dif­fi­cult process. In this guide, I will cre­ate a repos­i­tory, make sev­eral com­mits, cre­ate a branch, merge a branch, search the com­mit his­tory, push to a remote server, and pull from a remote server. The major­ity of this will be done […]

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Zend Framework: Module Specific Layout Plugin

2 April, 2010

Gra­ham Ander­son posted an use­ful workaround for the mod­ule spe­cific lay­out prob­lem;
The default lay­out plu­gin will accept a stack of paths in LIFO order.
This allows a very sim­ple hack to always ensure that any mod­ule can have it’s own default lay­out which will auto­mat­i­cally over­ride the default mod­ule layout.

class App_Controller_Plugin_Layout extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Layout {
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FastCopy — Moving / Copying files Lightning fast on Windows

1 April, 2010

Any­one that has been work­ing on a Win­dows based sys­tem (Regard­less of what ver­sion) groans every­time you have to copy or move many files from a drive to another…
I did how­ever find this lit­tle gem that takes most of the pain out of it;
Fast­Copy is the Fastest Copy/Delete Soft­ware on Win­dows.
It sup­ports UNICODE and over MAX_PATH […]

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Better Zend Framework Documentation

1 April, 2010

Chris Mor­rell comes with a very nice inter­me­di­ate solu­tion to ZF doc­u­men­ta­tion has­sles, he writes;
If you’ve every tried to nav­i­gate the Zend Frame­work documentation’s longer pages you’ve prob­a­bly looked every­where for a table of con­tents. Sure, there’s a TOC for the major sec­tions of the com­po­nent, but if you’re look­ing for a spe­cific part […]

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