Small Hacks for a Large World
Jon Lebensold post yet another excellent screen cast;
This little video tutorial should set you up for building your own custom Zend_Form decorators in 15 minutes. I’ll show you how you can make the necessary class and have it easily added to your existing Zend_Form_Decorator configuration.
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Jon Lebensold posts another great screen cast about one of the most confusing parts of Zend Framework ever created 🙂 ;
One of the pain points for folks who are starting to work with the Zend Framework is the Decorating functionality found in the depths of Zend_Form. I’ve witnessed countless instances when a developer becomes excited by Zend_Form’s easy-to-implement form validation and creation, only to become frustrated by countless hours of fighting with Zend_Form_Decorators. This video is a humble attempt on my part to walk through how Zend_Form Decorators work and how you can reason your way through a desire result. I couldn’t have gotten my own head around this implementation of the decorator pattern without Matthew Weier O’Phinney’s excellent posts and his original devzone article.
UPDATE: check out this blog post / tutorial for ZF 1.10.0: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/learning.form.decorators.html
I’ll show you a bit about how Zend_Form_Decorators are constructed and how to take the default zend_form layout and transform it into a table.
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Jon Lebensold publishes another screen cast on the Doctrine topic;
This short video is going to be the last in my 2009-2010 series on Doctrine 1.2. I’m wrapping it up with a little example of adding timestamps, logging and using Doctrine’s event listener architecture.
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view screencast; Logging with Timestamps and Doctrine Event Listeners
A big thank you to Ryan Horn for putting together this great screencast about Zend_Mail. Ryan took the time to talk about how to setup a dev environment that uses a gmail account. This is perfect for folks like myself who work in a development environment that’s behind an annoying ISP firewall on SMTP (port 25). Ryan Horn is a web developer based out of Buffalo, feel free to reach him by email.
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Jon Lebensold publishes the second part of his series on using Doctrine in combination with Zend_Auth & Zend_Auth_Adaptor; Here’s the second part of my Doctrine / Zend_Auth example. In 15 minutes, we create a logout, login and protected area that’s reliant on the ZC_Auth_Adapter adapter we created in last week’s video. Notice how there’s no code in the IndexController exposing the authentication implementation,
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Jon Lebensold publishes another installment of his popular screen cast series, he writes; I’ve been using Doctrine a lot in my own work, and recently found myself itching to have tighter integration between Zend and Doctrine when it comes to user logins. Luckily, Zend provides a very simple interface with regards to Zend_Auth. This way, it’s easy to decouple your persistence layer (in my case Doctrine) from the authentication layer. I’ve borrowed from Palo Verede’s wonderful article on Doctrine and Zend_Auth and I invite you to check his blog out.
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John Lebensold has recorded a VERY nice 7 part video run through that shows how you can use some of the new functionality in PHP 5.30+ that I highly recommend everyone doing any kind of PHP development to watch especially if you are working with any type of objects, relations, models or always wanted to learn howto!
httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=26476C10F41BE2A2&index=0&playnext=1
If after watching the videos (should play in one go above) you dont see how life will be made a lot simpler, please comment!
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