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Category Archives: zend framework
Testing Outgoing Email with Zend Framework
I was creating a new application with Zend Framework at work the other day and I started using my technique that I described here by adding the original email in my email address using the + sign. However, the current … Continue reading
Zend Filter Presentation
Thanks to Zend and their community organizers for the opportunity to do a webinar today. I have uploaded my slides from the presentation here: Zend Filter Presentation
Adding Subdomain Routes for all URLs in Zend Framework
All the examples I’ve seen for pulling information from subdomains are from the hostname router directly correlating one subdomain as a value to a single controller/action combo. This means they map username.website.com to something that basically looks internally like website.com/user/profile/var1/username. … Continue reading
Zend Framework: to include or not to include
There are two ways of working with Zend Framework as a library in your project. These are including it in your project repository and using a shared copy on the server (like PEAR). Let us discuss both: Including Zend Framework … Continue reading
Forcing UTF-8 in Zend Framework with PDO
For some reason, I just had the most horrible time making sure that my connection from my Zend Framework code was speaking UTF8 at my database. Here are the key things to remember that I learned: Make sure to have … Continue reading
Useful Firebug Tricks with Zend Framework
Zend Framework has a few hooks with the Firebug browser plugin (with the firePHP add-on). The two that I use are writing logs to the console and profiling of database connections. First thing’s first: Make sure to only enable these … Continue reading
Easy Flash Messenger Messages in Zend Framework
Through reading a few blog posts over the last year and my own trial and error, I’ve developed a way of using the flashMessenger Helper in ZF that works out really well for me. (Note: if anyone knows the original … Continue reading
Zend Framework View Helper for QR Codes
Google Charts has a QR code generation service (here are the details). I decided that I wanted to create my own ZF View Helper to display these on my pages. This version that I am going to show just returns … Continue reading
PHPUnit error with Zend_Session
Running a test, I ran into this error: Zend_Session_Exception: Session must be started before any output has been sent to the browser; output started in /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Util/Printer.php/173 In order to solve that, I added a line calling ob_start() to my test … Continue reading
Zend Framework: Bootstrap vs Front Controller Plugin
Today I was reviewing some old code I wrote in Zend Framework. One of the things I was doing in the Bootstrap.php file was creating an function called _initViewSettings(). In here I set a bunch of values for the xhtml … Continue reading