Archive for Category: Zend Framework
Zend Framework 1.5 Preview
The Zend Framework team recently announced the release of the preview for version 1.5 of the framework. I’m excited to play around with several new components, specifically the OpenID and LDAP authentication adapters and the Zend_Form module.
I haven’t really gotten on the OpenID bus yet, but it seems promising, and I can certainly smile […]
ZF overview from Nick Halstead
Nick Halstead and the developers at Assembleron recently launched a new service Fav.or.it, which is an RSS reader, and allows you to comment on the posts you’re reading. Pretty smart! Tangentially, there has been something of a comment backlash from a few of the software world’s most outspoken voices this year, so I find the […]
Zend Framework speed
Richard Thomas put together a performance comparison of basic PHP, the Zend Framework, the Solar framework and Richard’s custom framework, and the results surprised me. ZF is slow as molasses. Of course, any framework is going to incur overhead compared to all custom code because the framework is managing a number of tasks transparently from […]
Date validation in Zend Framework
The Zend Framework has a powerful set of validation features, ranging from predefined data type checking (like email addresses and DNS hostnames) to classes for chaining together validations and input filters to create custom validation stacks. Since Rule #1 of web application security is Don’t trust ANYTHING that comes from the browser, I use […]
Frustration with Zend Controller Action Helpers
Considering the fact that Zend Framework was designed with a preference towards configuration over convention, I’ve been unpleasantly surprised a few times with conventions that aren’t mentioned in the documentation and have caused me a few headaches. Naturally, the framework is a new product, and there are going to be oversights and surprises here and […]
Magento - Open Source e-commerce
An open source project I’m very excited about is Magento, a new e-commerce package. E-commerce was one of the very first application domains that was tackled when the web starting becoming popular in the mid to late Nineties. There are many, many commercial packages that are available, and correspondingly, there are a few free open […]
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.
Read all about it: […]
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 […]
