Zend Framework

Continuing with the tutorial series, we will see how to debug the application we created in the #1 series of the tutorials. In case you missed it, in our first tutorial, we have seen how to structure and code a brand new ZF application to use ... [More] modules (you can also view that article here ) Debugging include easy to use methods of printing data on the screen, including ZFDebug Toolbar in order to manage all errors and queries, using the logger to log messages to Firebug, using a simple debug function that will place debug messages in your ZFDebug Toolbar, in a special Debug panel, using a redirect debug function in order to see what is happening during your requests, using redirect in a Controller plugin. [Less]

In this first article of the series, we will discuss about the best way (in my opinion) to structure your Zend Application in order to have maximum flexibility but also a good defined structure of the classes/files. These will be a series of ... [More] tutorials which are meant to show you or guide you through developing a complex application with Zend Framework 1.10. The series consists of the following parts: a) Setting up a module based application b) Setting up helper plugins, methods & debugging with ZFD ebug c) Setting up a login page and signup page with captcha d) Setting up OpenID to login/create account e) Setting up an API to create/login an account f) Improving performance implementing Zend Cache [Less]

On his blog today Chris Hartjes has a new post about testing your Zend Framework application's functionality that lives behind a Zend_Auth authentication.

The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of Zend Framework 1.10.5, our fifth maintenance release in the 1.10 series. This release includes around 60 bug fixes, many due to the bug hunt days held last week . You may download it from the Zend Framework site .

On the Web Builder Zone (of DZone ) Giorgio Sironi has posted an article looking at the Zend_Test component of the Zend Framework and how to use it for acceptance test-driven development .

On PHPBuilder.com there's a new tutorial on layouts in Zend Framework applications. The tools the framework gives you makes things much simpler when it comes to changing layouts and updating the general structure of your site.

It's that time of the month again! Thursday and Friday, 20-21 May 2010, Zend Framework will host its monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues ... [More] reported against the framework. Past events have netted over a 100 issues closed in just two days. We'd like to see that kind of momentum in this week's bug hunt. Whether they are big bugs or small bugs, remember: all bugs worthy of being squashed. [Less]

If you use Zend Framework you probably used the initRoutes() function in your Initializer.php to create nice URI's and creating some different routing in your application. To create a customized route for your application you can use the ... [More] Zend_Controller_Router_Route class from the Zend Framework. If you use the common syntax you have to repeatedly build routes in code for all routes in your application. This makes it not maintainable for programmers. To fix this problem we are going to use a XML file with all routing information. [Less]

It's been over six months since the initial code release of the SimpleCloud API, and the code has come a long way since then: thanks to the efforts of Stas, Wil, and our partners, we now have a solid, well-tested, documented code base that shows off integration with Amazon, Windows Azure, and Nirvanix.

New from the Content with Style blog today there's a quick tutorial showing how to connect an application to LinkedIn with the Zend_Ouath component.