There was some chatter about using module based layouts with Zend_Layout on freenode, so I thought I’d explore the idea a bit more. There was this particular idea to use a plugin and a bit of application.ini/xml settings to configure it all. But I’m a bit old school with my Zend Framework apps.
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All I Need is REST, Vimeo, Flickr, Zend and More
July 12th, 2009
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Here’s my skeleton for my magical REST interface. It’s still missing a lot of method calls for Flickr and Vimeo, but the guts are there and the remaining methods will be done in priority when I need them. Right now it supports automatic caching and logging via simple options. At some point I’ll probably put [...]
PHP Java Bridge vs. Zend Platform Java Bridge
June 5th, 2009
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A long time ago I posted some instructions on installing PHP/Java Bridge on Ubuntu and that post is getting quite a few reads, so I figured I’d post a follow up on how it was used. Over the last year I had been using a Java Bridge from a Zend Framework application to access a [...]
Zend Framework 1.8 and Beyond
April 18th, 2009
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Zend Framework 1.8 is almost ready and as such, it’s time for me to look into what it’s got. There’s a good listing of what’s new over here and really on the surface it doesn’t look like much. But as a person who’s been using ZF for quite some time, I’m really happy to see [...]
Some Thoughts on MVC, Bad Design and Confusion
March 14th, 2009
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I was reading a post over here about why the ActionStack in Zend Framework is evil. And I agree. I’ve used ActionStack before in a few older ZF sites (where better alternatives weren’t ready or I just didn’t know about them) but now as the framework has progressed there are many better alternatives to get [...]
