Archive for the 'Zend Framework' Category

Ecommerce with CodeIgniter

May 15th, 2008

Ironically the Zend Framework is marketed with the phrase “Extreme Simplicity & Productivity”. I have developed a few sites with it now and I find it to be anything but simple and productive. It’s complicated, has a steep learning curve, and (in my opinion) needs a lot more work. I realize that I’m coming from […]

How To Sort A Zend_Db_Table_Rowset

February 14th, 2008

So you figured out how to define the relationships between your Zend_Db_Tables and you have issued a call to findDependentRowset(). You get your Rowset back but you need to sort the results by one of the columns in the dependent table. How do you do that?
The short answer is, you can’t! Unfortunately, this functionality won’t […]

How To Implement Partials In Zend Framework 1.0.3

February 11th, 2008

The pre release of Zend Framework 1.5 has been out for a few days and includes an implementation for partials – among other things. But the GA release is still at least a few weeks off and I’ve got a project that needs to go live very soon. So, I’m using version 1.0.3 of the […]

How To Implement A Ruby on Rails style before_filter With The PHP Zend Framework

January 30th, 2008

I often use this when implementing a simple login screen for a password protected section of my application. In a Zend Framework application you can implement a preDispatch() function in a Zend_Controller_Action which will run before an action is dispatched. This lets you setup your filter to check to see if the visitor is logged […]

QuietHeadphones.com Goes To Zend Framework

January 24th, 2008

A while back I wrote about using Ruby on Rails to develop QuietHeadphones.com, a website that sells high quality noise reduction headphones. Tonight, we made the move to the Zend Framework. We did this for a variety of reasons including the fact that we are now hosting our site on a dedicated server with RackSpace. […]

Add View Helper Paths For Entire Zend Framework Application

January 17th, 2008

I have been writing several Zend_View_Helpers to aid in the development of my Zend Framework Application. The helpers are very generic and are used in many of my Views throught my applications. So, naturally, I want an easy way to configure my Views to have access to my custom View Helpers. You don’t want to […]