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Tag Archives: Zend Framework

Note to Self: PHP shipped on Mac OSX is broken and old

I had to learn the hard way. On my Mac I have MAMP installed. MAMP great piece of software that installs Apache, MySQL and PHP. It makes everything easy. As of this post, the PHP included in MAMP is PHP … Continue reading

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Zend Framework: How to use Zend_Paginator

Having a “search” functionality in your web application is very essential and for every search comes a “search results” page. It is not hard to create your own search results page with a pagination, but it does take a certain … Continue reading

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Zend Framework: SQL Injection Prevention from DPC Slides

I would never make it to any PHP Conference, so I would have to be satisfied by the replays and slides. I got these from the DPC slides found here (pdf). function query($sql, $bind = array()) – uses prepared statement … Continue reading

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Zend Framework: Navigation and Breadcrumbs with an XML File in ZF 1.8

This is related to the Making the Built-in Breadcrumb Helper Work I posted earlier. Thanks to Jonathan Lebensold’s screencast, I am able to create my navigation and breadcrumbs in a better way. Using an XML file makes more sense than … Continue reading

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Creating and Registering your custom plugins in Zend Framework 1.8

When Zend Framework 1.8 was released, anyone could now setup a project within seconds using the zf Command Line Tool — see Quickstart Guide. A few days ago, I managed to setup a project using the new command line tools. … Continue reading

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Zend Framework: Making the Built-in Breadcrumb Helper Work

In the latest release of Zend Framework (1.8.1 as of this writing), there is a new built-in view helper to render your breadcrumb needs. There is a section in the documentation that tells us how to use it. But I … Continue reading

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Zend Framework: Zend_Soap / Create a Web Service

Here is a quick tutorial on how to create your own web service using Zend Framework. Web services are software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Nowadays if you want to connect external systems, you probably … Continue reading

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Making Zend_Tool work…

Try this: -bash-3.00$ ls -la /usr/local/lib | grep php drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 13 10:17 php -rw-r–r– 1 root root 44292 May 12 16:51 php.ini Note that /usr/local/lib/ will vary on different systems. But I found my php … Continue reading

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Zend Framework Quickstart Problem

I am not sure if I am the only person in this world who could not make the Quickstart run! But I am having problems setting things up. Every time I do this, I get an error: -bash-3.00$ zf show … Continue reading

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Zend Framework: Akrabat’s Quick Start Tutorial

I got my first Zend Framework application working using Akrabat’s Tutorials. Today, I just found out that he has updated his Quickstart Tutorial — using ZF 1.8. The PDF can be downloaded here directly. And you can find some notes … Continue reading

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