Tag Archives: zend framework

• Custom Zend Framework Form Elements July 31, 2012

  Creating forms in Zend Framework (ZF) is easy, but creating and managing complex forms can get messy! Using config files is perfectly good if you use standard Zend Form elements; it is quick and easy to setup a form in a few minutes however you will have limited control over how the form is rendered. If you want to display your own custom form element correctly in Zend Framework then some configuration is needed in order to achieve this with a config file. An alternative approach is to create some custom objects that extend the base Zend Form object - you can still use the config but also add in your own custom Zend Form elements.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
• DPC Radio: Let's take over the world with Zend Framework September 21, 2011

  Today's episode comes from one of our own Ibuildings employees, covering Zend Framework.

  Martin de Keijzer

  Many people use Zend Framework for it's MVC implementation, but it has a lot of hidden gems. Internationalization (i18n) is one of them. We will look how you can create an application that will have the right languages, currencies, dates and times all based on the location of the visiting user. This session will take away a lot of headaches in international projects and will improve the quality in overall.

  Edit: You can find Martin's slides on slideshare

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• DPCRadio: Working with Zend_Form January 26, 2011

  Rob Allen

  Zend_Form is a powerful component than can simplify form handling within your web application. Find out in this session how to make Zend_Form render and validate your form elements and ease the pain of forms on web pages.

  We will look at configuration, data filters & validation and error handling. One particularly tricky area is the use of the decorator pattern to control the generated HTML when rendering the form. This session will therefore also take a detailed look at this especially powerful functionality and show how to ensure that your forms are rendered as desired.

  Slides can be found here

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• Unit Testing Databases with Zend Framework December 7, 2010

  Testing the database layer is a fundamental step during application development. It allows us to ensure that all data operations behave properly, without data loss or corruption. In this article, we are going to describe a simple way to test the database layer of our applications, using PHPUnit database classes, Zend Framework extensions and some custom reusable code to facilitate the process for all the domain models. This article will walk you through, step by step, for each of the tasks needed to achieve this.
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• Zend Studio formatter for Zend Framework and ATK March 18, 2010

  Zend Studio is a great IDE and we use it a lot at Ibuildings (in addition to NetBeans, PDT and Vim). One of the nice features is the code formatter that helps develop code according to agreed standards, which is useful to keep projects consistent.

  One problem we have with the current versions of Zend Studio is that its default Zend Framework formatter is not consistent with the official Zend Framework coding standard. Luckily, that can be easily fixed. Sandy Pleyte, one of our developers, created a formatting file for Zend Studio that does adhere to the formal standard. There might be a few issues here and there but we've found it to work much better than the default one in Zend Studio. Because it might be helpful to others, we're sharing the formatter file with anyone that's interested. Download the file and read on for instructions.

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• Secure Programming with the Zend Framework October 13, 2009

  Speaker: Stefan Esser

  The idea of that talk is to go through the classes of vulnerabilities or security problems that you usually need to take care of yourself and look at the Zend Framework to check what internal protection ZF offers and how they are used and what problems you still need to solve on your own.

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