There is second part of Doctrine and Zend Framework integration screencasts series from ZendCasts.com .
This short podcast covers how you can easily build a form using Zend’s MVC model via Zend_Controller and using Doctrine for persistence.
This time Jon Lebensold looks at forms and creating new database entities using Doctrine.
Vikram Vaswani published on the Zend Developer Zone interesting article about large data sets paging problem and it’s solution in popular PHP tools.
When building database-backed applications, one of the important problems for a developer or user interface engineer involves making large data sets more manageable by, and therefore more useful to, application users. (…) One of the most common solutions to this problem involves breaking these large data sets into smaller chunks (“pages”) and providing controls for users to move between them. (…) This article will introduce you to one such component, Zend_Paginator, which is a part of the Zend Framework. However, open source is all about choice and so, this article will also discuss two other popular components, PEAR Pager and Doctrine Pager. Come on in, and let’s get started.
This is first post in his series, focused entirely on Zend_Paginator component and providing lots of practical usage examples. In the upcoming post Vikram will be looking at other two popular pagination tools, PEAR Pager and Doctrine_Pager.
Doctrine is slowly getting more and more popular among Zend Framework developers. Since development of Zend_Entity is dropped in favor of Doctrine integration, it’s popularity should not be surprised. Especially that it is solid ORM-like tool. One of Doctrine integration evangelists is Jouzas Kaziukenas.
So about 3-4 months ago I completely switched to Doctrine. After evaluating possible solutions I decided to stay with Doctrine for a long time. I don’t know any other solution coming, I definitely don’t want (mainly because I don’t have time) to invest on creating my own library and Doctrine is simply awesome when you get used to it. After all this time I can say that it was a right call – Doctrine is on a way to being officially supported in Zend Framework (Symfony has it right now) and with Doctrine 2.0 (you can see a short presentation of its new features right here) it will be just a perfect tools combination.
He begun publishing series of posts about his experience in Doctrine and Zend Framework integration. First two parts of the series cover brief description of Doctrine and it’s capabilities, setting up Doctrine resource, creating database, models and executing simple query.
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 →
