Zend Framework University

Recently we have published a note about great book for people interested in learning Zend Framework, Surviving The Deep End. Today we have similar, but much, much shorter publication for you. A simple Blog using Zend framework 1.9 is an article about building simple blog application from a scratch using Zend Framework.

The tutorial covers everything about building simple application based on Zend Framework, from using Zend_Tool to scaffold the project, through configuration, bootstrapping, up to creating models, forms and adding code to generated classes. Final application is regular blog, where uses can log in and depending on access level comment and publish new posts.

This is very interesting reading for all developers new to Zend Framework. If you want to see how things work in Zend Framework, or you want to show it to someone, for instance co-worker, this article is for you.

In the new post on his blog, Pablo Viquez writes about exporting data to Excel spreadsheet using Zend Framework and Spreadcheet_Excel_Writer (PEAR component). Most interesting part of article, at least for me, is context switching.

Zend Framework offers a nice feature called “Context Switch”. This is an action helper that detects requested output and calls the specific view for the required format.

Presented layout and multi-context application and explanation of how to plug-in contexts not supported by default by Zend Framework is a must ready for everyone looking for clear solutions of presenting same data in different format.

Matthew writes that recently we has been asked many times about how to autoload Doctrine and it’s models in Zend Framework. In his recent post we gives short and long explanation how to use Zend_Load_Autoloader to solve this problem. Read the rest of this entry →

Thomas Weidner writes on his blog about his recent contribution to Zend Framework, plural forms support in Zend_Translate. Read the rest of this entry →

Ralph Schindler, Zend Framewor Contributor, writes on his blog about how to use dynamic assertions with Zend_Acl, access control list component. Read the rest of this entry →