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Serving Mobile Templates

jon — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:12:56 +0000

Introducing Action Helpers

jon — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:11:53 +0000

Unit Testing your HTTP Requests

jon — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:12:43 +0000

A couple days ago, Till Klampaeckel just posted a very interesting plugin for PHPUnit that helps you debug your Zend Controller testcases by providing header information. He’s posted the code on GitHub and provided a real-world example of how to use the plugin for debugging your unit tests effectively. This approach takes advantage of the event-listener architecture of PHPUnit.

Logging in Users using Doctrine and Zend_Auth

jon — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:12:40 +0000

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,

Grab a copy of the project or browse the repository.

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Deep Integration between Zend and Doctrine 1.2

jon — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:53:44 +0000

There’s been a lot of talk online about finding the best approach for bringing Zend and Doctrine 1.x together. This video is my humble approach of combining some of the learning brought about over the last few weeks on Zendcasts, as well as suggestions from Doctrine developers.

The goal of this video is to show how you leverage the existing resource loading tools in Zend to have a model structure that reflects Zend’s best practices. This video builds on the last Doctrine video, but if you’re familiar with both frameworks, you should be able to follow along. Enjoy!

Grab a copy of the project or browse the repository.

Also, a big thank you to ServerGrove for extending their support of Zendcasts for January. ServerGrove specializes in Zend Framework hosting and they’ve offered a 10% rebate on hosting with coupon code “zc”. If you’re looking for a host, be sure to check them out. They’ve also added an additional coupon for “Mini Hosting” plans, get $2 off by using code “zcmini”.

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!

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.

Grab a copy of the project or browse the repository.

Debugging Zend Projects with Firebug

jon — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:34:41 +0000

Tawfek is back! This is part 1 of a two part series where Tawfek will be taking us through how Firebug and the Zend Framework can work together to provide non-intrusive debugging and accurate profiling information for an application. This is a great feature that every Zend Developer should know about. Browse or download the source code. Discuss in the Forums.

Unit Testing with the Zend Framework with Zend_Test and PHPUnit

jon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:37:32 +0000

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.

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

Don’t forget to grab the source code or browse it on google code.

Many to Many with Zend_Form and Zend_Db

jon — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:29:15 +0000

This is part 2 in a series on many to many with Zend_Form and Zend_Db. I suggest starting with last week’s video on Zend_Db and many-to-many in order to follow the configuration of our models. Grab the code and follow along! This concludes this series on Zend_Db. I’ve also uploaded a zipped version of the code if that’s easier than Google Code.

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.

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.

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.