Zend Server 5.6 is out

Kevin Schroeder writes; Zend Server 5.6 is out.  I’m actu­ally pretty stoked about this release.  Here’s a few rea­sons why.

Zend Server CE now con­tains the full Zend Server stack.  Why do I find this excit­ing?  Because the upgrade path from CE to the full ver­sion is stu­pid easy.  That means you can try out all of […]

AMF Authentication & Authorization">Zend AMF Authentication & Authorization

dkozar evolved a work­ing method to Authen­ti­cate and Autho­rize a Flex based app datas ser­vice call using Zend AMF, he writes;
I’ve been strug­gling with it, and fig­ured it all out — so, per­haps it could help oth­ers.
The authen­ti­ca­tion is called on the server only if cre­den­tials sup­plied from the client (via the remote pro­ce­dure call […]

Flex Builder 4.5.x Test Drive for Mobile Tutorials

Here is a very good multi-part tuto­r­ial on the ins and outs of mobile client / server devel­op­ment, that adds some quite use­ful func­tion­al­ity on Android, Apple IOS and Black­berry mobile devices.
In this Test Drive, you are going to cre­ate a Flex mobile appli­ca­tion that retrieves, dis­plays, and mod­i­fies data­base records (see Figure […]

WHAT with PHP? Chapter 10">You want to do WHAT with PHP? Chapter 10

With the book out and released I now reach the final chap­ter excerpt that I will have. As I said in one of my pre­vi­ous chap­ter excerpts, I did not write this book to cover a wide range of top­ics. I wrote it to cover a nar­row range of top­ics, more fully. […]

Bootstrapping Zend_Translate with a LangSelector Plugin

As an update to the method of hav­ing every­thing related to Zend_Translate and Zend_Locale in the Boot­strap, here is an alter­na­tive using an Con­troller Plu­gin that does the grunt work of val­i­dat­ing, select­ing and updat­ing the Zend_Locale, Zend_Registry & Zend_Session using Zend_Session_Namespace. And we are using poedit .po & .mo files as the source as usual.