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Here’s the second part of my Doctrine / Zend_Auth example. In 15 minutes, we create a logout, login and protected area that’s reliant on the ZC_Auth_Adapter adapter we created in last week’s video. Notice how there’s no code in the IndexController exposing the authentication implementation,

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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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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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I have to preface this video by saying that I’m still a bit of a novice when it comes to unit testing (especially in Zend). Also, I feel that I wouldn’t be able to take credit for the whole implementation.

Here are some great resources on unit testing in the Zend Framework to beef up your knowledge.

• Set up a Zend Framework application using Zend_Application (including PHPUnit setup)
• Testing Zend Framework MVC Applications – phly, boy, phly
• Matthew’s pastebin

The trouble with these is that they’re mostly pre-1.8. I’ve taken the approach of using a command line instead of the IDE since this way it doesn’t matter if you’re using Zend Studio for Eclipse.

What’s covered:

• Using phpunit with MAMP
• Unit Testing Models
• Generating Code Coverage Reports
• Unit Testing Controllers

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