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30 January, 201020 June, 2010

Doctrine Tricks — SoftDelete

While pouring over some posts about Doctrine I stumbled upon a very nice solution to the Cascading Delete issue when using the SoftDelete behaviour on an Doctrine Model. Here is what the guys at Elink Media writes;

I have been using Doctrine ORM for a while now. Here I want to discuss 2 tricky issues I have encountered and resolved.

First, I’m paranoid of deleting records from the database. Things like registered users, I would rather have them marked as “DELETED”, but still keep the record in the database, just in case …

With Doctrine, the SoftDelete behaviour is perfect for this purpose. When a model is enabled with the SoftDelete behaviour, an extra field “deleted_at” is automatically added to the corresponding database table by default. So, when you call the delete() function on a model object, the corresponding data row in the database receives a timestamp on the “deleted_at” field. Data having values on the “deleted_at” field will not be returned by any find methods in the future.

It all sounds good, right? Not until you start trying to cascade “delete” on associations. Since we are not really deleting the record, DBMS level delete cascading will simply not work (In Doctrine YAML schema term, the “onDelete: CASCADE” will not work). Now, I’ll illustrate the problem and the solution with a typical blog example.

Click for Solution 🙂

http://blog.elinkmedia.net.au/2010/01/30/doctrine-tricks/.

30 January, 201030 January, 2010

Front Controller Pattern in Zend Framework

Bradley Holt writes a good article about Front Controller Patterns; I recently gave a Zend Framework Introduction presentation at our local PHP Users Group. I built a demo blogging application called Postr that I used as an example throughout the presentation. There was way too much material to cover in the time available so I plan on writing a series of blog posts, each covering a specific area of Zend Framework. Here is the first (and hopefully not the last!) post in this series based on the presentation and demo application.

via Front Controller Pattern in Zend Framework.

28 January, 201029 January, 2010

Creating Usable Forms With Zend Framework

Chris Hartjes writes a very nice article about how to make (re)usable zend_forms; After searching around online for some examples of building simple forms, I was dismayed to discover there were two different ways of building the form. I could (a) do it the long way and create specific instances of the form elements using Zend_Form_Element_X or (b) do it the short way and add them to the form by use of Zend_Form::addElement() and pass it the type of form element I want via an array. For reasons I cannot explain initially, I decided to do things the long way. Later on, I found out that doing it this way saved me from rewriting.
Via: Creating Usable Forms With Zend Framework.

28 January, 201028 January, 2010

Zend Framework 1.10.0 STABLE Released

On behalf of the Zend Framework team and the framework’s many contributors, I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of the stable release of Zend Framework 1.10.0. You can download it from our downloads page:

http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

This release includes a ton of new features (more on those below), as well as some huge changes to our documentation.

Our documentation has been slightly re-organized into new sections. Previously, the manual was divided simply into chapters, one per component. Those chapters still exist, but have been moved into an explicit “Reference Guide” section. We have also added a new section entitled, “Learning Zend Framework,” that includes a number of tutorials for using various framework components, including our former “Quick Start” guide. Initially, we’re offering nine tutorials, ranging from first steps to advanced layout and view usage, to search and pagination. These tutorials are now an official part of our documentation, and you can expect improvements, translations, and additions in the versions to come.

To render our documentation, we’ve moved from the venerable xsltproc to PHP.net’s own PhD. This provides us more flexibility in how we render the manual — including the ability to render it differently for packaging versus the online manual. Additionally, it brings the rendering time down from over an hour to just minutes — which will make the release process faster and smoother. Please join me in thanking Shahar Evron and Hannes Magnusson for assisting in our transition to this fantastic tool.

Another big change is that we are now providing versioned documentation on the website. For each minor revision of Zend Framework (1.10, 1.9, 1.8, etc), you can now find both the manual as well as the API documentation. This should assist users who are building off of older versions of ZF.

Finally, our download page has a new design, aimed to be simpler and more visually appealing.

We have a few more site updates in store that we’ll be rolling out over the next few weeks; stay tuned for further announcements!

Below is a list of new features included in the 1.10.0 stable release:

Zend_Barcode, contributed by Mickael Perraud
Zend_Cache_Backend_Static, contributed by Pádraic Brady
Zend_Cache_Manager, contributed by Pádraic Brady
Zend_Exception – previous exception support, contributed by Marc Bennewitz
Zend_Feed_Pubsubhubbub, contributed by Pádraic Brady
Zend_Feed_Writer, contributed by Pádraic Brady
Zend_Filter_Boolean, contributed by Thomas Weidner
Zend_Filter_Compress/Decompress, contributed by Thomas Weidner
Zend_Filter_Null, contributed by Thomas Weidner
Zend_Log::factory(), contributed by Mark van der Velden and Martin Roest (of ibuildings)
Zend_Log_Writer_ZendMonitor, contributed by Matthew Weier O’Phinney
Zend_Markup, contributed by Pieter Kokx
Zend_Oauth, contributed by Pádraic Brady
Zend_Serializer, contributed by Marc Bennewitz
Zend_Service_DeveloperGarden, contributed by Marco Kaiser
Zend_Service_LiveDocx, contributed by Jonathan Marron
Zend_Service_WindowsAzure, contributed by Maarten Balliauw
Zend_Validate_Barcode, contributed by Thomas Weidner
Zend_Validate_Callback, contributed by Thomas Weidner
Zend_Validate_CreditCard, contributed by Thomas Weidner
Zend_Validate_PostCode, contributed by Thomas Weidner
Zend_Pdf parsing speed has been improved by around 40%
Additions to Zend_Application resources, including Cachemanager, Dojo, Jquery, Layout, Log, Mail, and Multidb (contributed primarily by Dolf Schimmel)
Refactoring of Zend_Loader::loadClass() to conform to the PHP Framework Interop Group reference implementation, which allows for autoloading PHP 5.3 namespaced code
Updated Dojo version to 1.4

Zend_Tool was refactored to eliminate issues and bottlenecks, as well as to add a number of new features:

New CLI runner with home directory and configuration support
New providers for Model generation, DbAdapter setup, Layouts and Form Generation
Default project structure comes with logging support in the ErrorController

As you will note from the above, this release was very much community-driven. In addition to these direct contributions of features, we also received a ton of bugfixes during our community bug hunt days the last few months, tons of translations of our manual (particularly due to the addition of tutorials!), and had countless individuals step forward to report website issues (that we hopefully resolved with this release). Please join me in extending a huge thank you to the Zend Framework community!

via Zend Framework 1.10.0 STABLE Released.

27 January, 201027 January, 2010

Logging in Users using Doctrine and Zend_Auth

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,

Grab a copy of the project or browse the repository.

Check it out here; Zendcasts.

26 January, 201027 January, 2010

Writing a Zend_Auth_Adapter with Doctrine

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.

Grab a copy of the project or browse the repository.

Look at the video and comment here; Zendcasts.

22 January, 20107 February, 2010

PHP6 (PHP5.30+) Advanced Concepts Tutorial

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!

22 January, 2010

Zend Framework Documentation Now Version Specific

This is VERY good news!!!

The Zend Framework has updated their documentation site with a very handy feature for those that may not be working with the latest version of the framework – the ability to select a version of the framework to view the documentation for.

As of the time of this post, they have versions 1.10 back through the original 1.0 of the documentation as well as having them in six different languages. The site’s search can also be limited to a certain version as well, making it super simple to find just what you’re looking for.

Check out their updated documentation site to see these new features in action.

via Community News.

21 January, 201031 May, 2016

Translate Toolkit & Pootle

This entry is part [part not set] of 1 in the series Translation Tools

I’ve got a whole lot of questions about what tools other than poedit that exists especially for teams, so I’ll start going through and try to review tools available and add them to the new Translation Tools article series.

I hope you’ll find this useful.

The Translate project provides tools to make it easier for you to localize. Tools that work with standards based file formats like PO and XLIFF because you deserve the best. Our goal is to make your life as a localizer easier, help you work faster and keep your work at a high quality.

Virtaal – Standalone CAT Tool

Demonstration of new features in the latest Virtaal release. Virtaal is an open source computer aided translation and localisation tool. You can read more about it at Virtaal. Virtaal aims to be simple to use for first time localisers yet powerful for experienced localisers. Features include translation memory from many sources, sophisticated searching, a simple and powerful navigation interface and more. The developers are aiming to include terminology support in the next release and make it easier to configure the translation memory and terminology plugins.

Pootle web-based translation tool

If you require team based the Pootle web-based translation tool and translation management solution might be what you want.

Check out: Translate Toolkit & Pootle website.

21 January, 2010

Web Design and Programming in 2010

Some encouraging words from the guys at killersites.com 🙂