Archive for Category: PHP
Serialization issues in Zend_Acl
One of the features that originally drew me to the Zend Framework was the built-in ACL functionality. Most applications need to have some sort of user management, and I had been looking for a solid, easily extensible package to manage this so I didn’t have to spend a lot of time rolling my own. Unfortunately, […]
Zend Framework: View Renderer
In an excellent turn of events, Matthew Weier O’Phinney has announced a change to the Zend Framework View-Controller set-up that is much less verbose for common tasks, while remaining fully customizable. I think this is a nice bit of syntactic sugar, as it is more intuitive when first picking up the framework.
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Zend Framework: View Helpers
I’m working on a project using the Zend Framework 0.9.3, and I had a bit of a snag implementing a custom view helper. Though it is mentioned in the documentation, there is so much emphasis on class naming and the framework controllers use the convention of having identical file and class names that it is […]
Flash/PHP graphing
Yesterday I stumbled across a great library for generating Flash graphs easily with PHP. PHP/SWF Charts can add a bit of interactivity to data visualization with its ability to display data values on mouseovers, and create linkable regions of your graphs. This functionality could be replicated with HTML image maps and Javascript of course, but […]
PHP Caching
Caching is a major component of any high performance web application. Most caching systems for PHP focus on database queries, or are highly specialized for a specific purpose, such as the Smarty templating engine. Let’s contemplate a cache of static files to represent the state of a web application.
