free Zend Framework screencasts - Zendcasts » zend_tool http://www.zendcasts.com free Zend Framework screencasts. Video tutorials to get you up to speed with different parts of the Zend Framework and enterprise PHP development. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:14:00 +0000 en hourly 1 Reporting with Zend_Tool and Zend_Log http://www.zendcasts.com/reporting-with-zend_tool-and-zend_log/2010/04/ http://www.zendcasts.com/reporting-with-zend_tool-and-zend_log/2010/04/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:16:05 +0000 jon http://www.zendcasts.com/?p=336 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!

]]> http://www.zendcasts.com/reporting-with-zend_tool-and-zend_log/2010/04/feed/ 10 Integrating Zend_Tool Into Your Application http://www.zendcasts.com/integrating-zend_tool-into-your-application/2010/04/ http://www.zendcasts.com/integrating-zend_tool-into-your-application/2010/04/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:30:32 +0000 jon http://www.zendcasts.com/?p=333 This screencast should help you setup Zend_Tool in your Zend Framework application. Zend_Tool is a command line entry point into your application. Currently, Zend_Tool is used to scaffold (build generic files) the Zend Framework project structure, modules, controllers, database table classes and other tedious processes. The goal of this video is to start looking at how we can generate our own Manifest and Provider classes so that custom command line tools can be integrated into the Zend Framework application.

The advantage of such integration is far reaching: deployable web applications using the Zend Framework can have “installers” and other frameworks, like Doctrine, can easily become first class citizens within the Zend Framework eco-system.

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Enjoy!

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