Making JSON Objects from Zend_Controllers (Using JQuery)

February 18th, 2009

I started this video thinking it would be short and it ended up close to 30 minutes. If you find these videos too long, please let me know and I’ll break them up.

In my own defense, this video covers a lot of ground. I introduce JQuery and immediately put it to work for sending and receiving JSON requests to our Zend_Controller. The JSON is automatically generated from a set of PHP classes in a PHP array, thanks to Zend_Json.

also, download the project file for this episode.

 

Managing Session with Zend_Session_Namespace

January 28th, 2009

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

January 21st, 2009

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

Creating Zend_Controllers

December 31st, 2008

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. 

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