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Building a JSON End-Point With SLIM and jQuery: Part 2

jon — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:57:23 +0000

SLIMming Out Your Controller

jon — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:32:14 +0000

PHAR Out Autoloading (HD!)

jon — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:35:29 +0000

Fun with PHAR

jon — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:35:29 +0000

A quick look at how you can work with PHP Archives. I’m trying to build up my vim skills at the same time, so please forgive my vim fumbles!

Writing Custom Zend Filters with HTMLPurifier

jon — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:01:59 +0000

HTMLPurifier Integration

jon — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:43:07 +0000

Setting up Zend_HTTP_UserAgent

jon — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:02:27 +0000

Serving Mobile Templates

jon — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:12:56 +0000

Unit Testing Action Helpers

jon — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:04:33 +0000

Introducing Action Helpers

jon — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:11:53 +0000

Unit Testing Zend_Form

jon — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:04:24 +0000

Build a form for changing user passwords with 100% code coverage.

Consuming RSS Feeds with Zend_Feed_Reader

jon — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:54:16 +0000

Quickly and easily consume an RSS feed with Zend_Feed and then filter the result set.

Creating RSS & Atom Feeds with Zend_Feed

jon — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:53:20 +0000

Use Zend_Feed to build a simple RSS / Atom feed from a dataset in your models.

Working with ZendX_JQuery

jon — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:28:20 +0000

Quickly integrate jQuery and jQuery UI into your Zend Framework project.

Selectively Adding CSS with Zend_Layout

jon — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:09:19 +0000

How to manage your CSS selectively in larger applications.

Painless HTML Emails with Zend_Mail

jon — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:32:08 +0000

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Enjoy!

Reporting with Zend_Tool and Zend_Log

jon — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:16:05 +0000

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 into a log file with Zend_Log. Once data has been collected, we’re then able to utilize SimpleXML, Zend_Date and the Zend_Tool component to build out a very simple reporting tool. This is of course just an example of what’s possible. What comes to mind for me is building a cron job for generating reports based on the zf.sh executable, or even just doing backups at the command-line with the help of a fully integrated Zend Framework installation.

I’ve noticed that configuration information isn’t properly loaded into Zend_Tool and am still trying to figure out the design decisions there. You’ll notice that I was having some timezone issues with regards to Zend_Date and it seems that specifying a timezone in my application.ini file didn’t resolve the issue.

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Enjoy!

Ajaxify Your Zend_Form Validation with jQuery

jon — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:06:11 +0000

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.

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UPDATE: as a couple people have mentioned, you can cut down your IndexController even more by using the Zend_Json view helper:
public function validateformAction() { $f = new Form_Registration(); $f->isValid($this->_getAllParams()); $this->_helper->json($f->getMessages()); }

Enjoy!

Encapsulating Business Rules with Zend_Validate

jon — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:56:09 +0000

In this video, we’re going to work on building a custom validator for our composite form element for phone numbers. The nice thing about this validator is that it can then be applied to any sort of textbox. Next week, we’ll ajaxify our final form with a handful of lines of jQuery.

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Preparing Custom Elements for Zend Validators

jon — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:19:30 +0000

This is part in my litte series on Zend_Form will cover how to prep our composite form element for standardized Zend_Form validators. This will help lead us into building a Zend_Form validator for our phone element. It might help to start with episode 49.

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Writing Composite Zend_Form Elements

jon — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:34:18 +0000

This video should help you build your own composite Zend_Form element. We’ll be building a phone element. The phone element will have 3 textboxes, one for geographic location, area code and local code. In the following videos will add a custom cell phone validator and some ajax validation.

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Creating Custom Zend_Form Decorators

jon — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:58:55 +0000

This little video tutorial should set you up for building your own custom Zend_Form decorators in 15 minutes. I’ll show you how you can make the necessary class and have it easily added to your existing Zend_Form_Decorator configuration.

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Zend_Form Decorators Explained

jon — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:05:45 +0000

One of the pain points for folks who are starting to work with the Zend Framework is the Decorating functionality found in the depths of Zend_Form. I’ve witnessed countless instances when a developer becomes excited by Zend_Form’s easy-to-implement form validation and creation, only to become frustrated by countless hours of fighting with Zend_Form_Decorators. This video is a humble attempt on my part to walk through how Zend_Form Decorators work and how you can reason your way through a desire result. I couldn’t have gotten my own head around this implementation of the decorator pattern without Matthew Weier O’Phinney’s excellent posts and his original devzone article.

UPDATE: check out this blog post / tutorial for ZF 1.10.0: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/learning.form.decorators.html

I’ll show you a bit about how Zend_Form_Decorators are constructed and how to take the default zend_form layout and transform it into a table.

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Introduction to Zend_Mail

jon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:30:21 +0000

A big thank you to Ryan Horn for putting together this great screencast about Zend_Mail. Ryan took the time to talk about how to setup a dev environment that uses a gmail account. This is perfect for folks like myself who work in a development environment that’s behind an annoying ISP firewall on SMTP (port 25). Ryan Horn is a web developer based out of Buffalo, feel free to reach him by email.

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Doctrine Relations and Zend MVC

jon — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:52:45 +0000

This short podcast covers how you can easily build a form using Zend’s MVC model via Zend_Controller and using Doctrine for persistence.

You can download the source code or browse it online. Enjoy!

Introducing Zend_Translate

jon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:01:57 +0000

One of the big things that the Zend Framework has over other frameworks is the built-in locale and language tools provided by Zend_Translate and Zend_Locale. All this comes with plugins into Zend’s templating system via Zend View Helpers. This video covers setting up some language-friendly routes, writing a custom language switcher Zend Controller Plugin and then running some a CSV-formatted language file.

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Moving Bootstrap Code to Configuration

jon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:32:56 +0000

We’re going to build on what was covered in the last video and work with Zend Controller Plugins to specify a special layout for each module in our application. We’ll also look at how we can clean up the configuration of our Bootstrap.php file by moving as much configuration as possible into the application.ini file. Included in this video is a very quick look at how the Zend Framework’s resources are defined and loaded.

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Protecting Assets with Zend Controller Plugins

jon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:50:05 +0000

I had to take a little hiatus the last few weeks, however I’m hoping to get back into a weekly posting schedule.

This video is an introduction in how to effectively use Zend Controller Plugins. The Zend Documentation refers to Zend Controller plugins being part of the Action Stack which is a simple data structure that can be filled with a bunch of plugins which will run in succession.

We’ll create a simple asset protection script using the Zend Framework’s built in Zend Controller Plugin architecture.

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Zend_Navigation – creating a menu, a sitemap and breadcrumbs

jon — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:56:12 +0000

This tutorial covers a lot of the basic use cases with Zend_Navigation. Using a uri-based navigation.xml file, we generate a very simple menu system as well as a breadcrumb with some basic information. In the last 3 minutes I cover how to get a Google compliant sitemap from the navigation.xml file. This video is by no means exhaustive, but should get you up and running with Zend_Navigation in the Zend Framework.

Browse the code off google code or download a zip here.

On another note, I’m thinking of putting together a forum as a way of organizing some of the informative discussion I’ve found in the comments section. I know other forums exist so I’d be curious to know if you think zendcasts would benefit from such a thing.

Alternatively, if you have topics you’d like covered and are willing to step up to the mic, I’d love to share your own screencasts with the now over 550 subscribers!

Introduction to Zend 1.8: A look at Zend_Tool and Bootstrapping

jon — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:55:43 +0000

Zendcasts has now moved to 1.8.2! This video covers setting up a Zend Framework perspective in Zend Studio for Eclipse as a well as using Zend_Tool to get a project structure up and running. The second half of the video covers setting up Zend_Layout and a typical Zend MVC structure. Source code is available on Google Code or downloadable here. Enjoy!

Many to Many with Zend_Db and Zend_Form

jon — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:30:25 +0000

Exposing many-to-many in a practical application took a little more time and effort than I had anticipated. With that in mind, I to use this opportunity to explore how Zend_Form, Zend_Controller and Zend_Db could be integrated. This is the first in a two part set looking at our data model.

By the end of the second video, you should have a project that explores the following concepts with Zend_Db:

A user has many tasks (many-to-many)
A task has many users (many-to-many)
A user has one contact type (one-to-many)
A contact type has many users (many-to-one)

Unfortunately, this only gets through setting up the database, CRUD with Tasks and setting up the Many-to-Many classes in Zend_Db. The next video will cover how we can write a Zend_Form that will map the associations between the users and tasks. Enjoy!

If you can’t wait till the next video, grab the code on google code and play with it firsthand.

Writing a REST Web Service and Client With Zend_Controller

jon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:46:45 +0000

so here’s my makeup video for last week’s absence. It’s a little on the long end (nearing 40 mintues), however in my defense, I’m trying to cover a lot of ground. The video covers how you can build a very basic JSON web service with some private key authentication. I think that I muddled through the description, so I invite you to look at the Wikipedia entry on private / public key cryptography.

I start by producing a simple Business Object for countries, which then becomes a web service. With some credentials for authentication stored in Zend_Config_Ini, I go through the motions of writing a wrapper around Zend_HttpClient for handling requests with our home-grown country list web service. This approach was adapted from a web service I’ve been working on for a client recently, that I’ve found light and easy to write for RESTful calls. Following along with the source code might also be helpful. Grab yourself a copy of the source code here.

Zend View Partials

jon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:43:44 +0000

This screencast covers Zend View Partials, an often overlooked portion of the Zend_View_* collection of classes, however, I’ve found them super handy when writing complex templates. Running time is a little under 10 minutes.

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Zend View Helpers with AJAX

jon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:19:17 +0000

This is the second part of last weeks tutorial. Here we add some JQuery code and look at how Zend_View_Helper_* classes can be written in such a way that they behave the same when they’re invoked on the server and called asynchronously via an AJAX request.

Feel free to follow along by downloading the project code.

Introducing Zend View Helpers

jon — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:42:07 +0000

This video covers how to setup and user Zend View Helpers. I also cover how state is managed within the class. Next week I’ll show you how you can use this technique with a bit of AJAX to make those View Helpers shine! I’ll post the project code for both videos with part 2.

Zend_Form Introduction, Part 2

jon — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:56:52 +0000

This video is part 2 of my introduction to Zend_Form. These last two videos have been a bit long since Zend_Form has a lot of behavior.

I’ve also included the source code for this video. Hopefully this will help you follow along.

download the source here, I haven’t included the Zend Framework itself, but I imagine you can grab a copy off of the Zend website.

Zend_Form Introduction, part 1

jon — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:27:16 +0000

This screencast ran a little long, and unfortunately I’ll have to post the rest next week. We start with creating a DTO (Data Transfer Object) that will house our data as we pass it from the Controller, to the form and then back to the view. Zend_Form is used for validation and rendering.

enjoy!

Managing Session with Zend_Session_Namespace

jon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:19:20 +0000

This video covers the Zend_Session_Namespace class. It’s a short introduction to how we can use this object to simplify passing data from Zend_Controller action to another during a user’s stay on our web application.

Creating custom Zend_Controller routes

jon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:45:38 +0000

A look at how you can create custom routes and pass parts of your query string into a Zend_Controller as a named parameter.

Using Blueprint CSS with Zend

jon — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:51:31 +0000

This video looks at the HeadLink view helper and how blueprint can easily be integrated into an existing zend_layout.

Adding an XHTML Strict Doctype and CSS File the Zend Way

jon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:38:47 +0000

Using zend_layout, a CSS file and doctype will be set through some helpful tools provided in the Zend Framework.

Creating Zend_Controllers

jon — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:00:03 +0000

The last video in a series showing how to setup the Zend Framework from scratch. This video goes through the steps required to create a Zend_Controller for handling error reporting as well as creating the main IndexController. Zend_Layout is also briefly mentioned as part of the MVC setup.

Make an index file for a Zend Framework project

jon — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:10:53 +0000

This video covers the code found in the Zend Quickstart guide for creating the bootstrap file. I create the index.php file which will handle all the browser requests to the Zend Framework.

Writing a bootstrap file

jon — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:20:49 +0000

Setting up a bootstrap.php file as part of a Zend Framework MVC structure. I also cover the preliminary steps in setting up a Zend Framework project in NetBeans. This video is part 3 of a series of short videos going through the steps required to setup a Zend Framework project from scratch.

Zend Framework MVC Folders

jon — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:26:47 +0000

Setup a Zend Framework folder structure in under 5 minutes.

Zendcasts Technology Overview

jon — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:43:49 +0000

The first Zendcasts video. Getting MAMP ready for a Zend Framework installation on a local machine.