Learning Zend Framework: A Case Study
Recently I’ve been immersed into a Zend Framework project in a way that I’ve never been immersed before. This immersion experience has brought out a few thoughts and lessons that I’ve learned through...
View ArticleThe Adventures Of Merging Propel With Zend Framework
Recently, I finished my first production-quality Zend Framework application. It was a new website that made use of an old backend that powers another application I wrote using a custom framework. I...
View ArticleAn Intro To Zend_Navigation
This past week I had the need to integrate Zend_Acl with a navigation and menu system. Unfortunately, the documentation took a couple reads for me to understand how Zend_Navigation worked; given this,...
View ArticleMaking Zend_Navigation Useful
In the last blog post, we discussed creating Zend_Navigation pages and containers. This is certainly wonderful and exciting, but the reality is that for the most part, Zend_Navigation is a pretty...
View ArticleCaching For Efficiency With Zend Framework
One of the things I’m always looking for is ways to improve performance with the applications I write. While a few applications are write-heavy, most are read-heavy: that is, reading the database is...
View ArticleRevisiting: Why Every Developer Should Write Their Own Framework
In November of 2009, I wrote about why developers should write their own frameworks. I pointed out at the time that often developing a framework forces developers to make the kinds of architectural...
View ArticleInterfaces Make Testing Easier
I, along with others, have written on interfaces many times before but recently I had occasion to find a new thing about them that makes them really awesome. A few days ago I was tasked with...
View ArticleA Reflection On Adopting Zend Framework – One Year Later
About a year ago, I was introduced to Zend Framework as the framework I was going to be working with almost every day. And for nearly a year now, every day I have worked closely with Zend Framework,...
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