The Zend Framework in Practice

Any web application that retrieves large amounts of data for display is bound to have the need to split that data over several pages. Developing the code to do this from scratch is not trivial, so it is extremely useful that the Zend Framework has the Zend_Paginator module, which assists with this task. (more…)

There are several problems associated with running Zend Framework applications on IIS. This post looks at how to address these problems. (more…)

The feed digest helper is used to fetch a list of the most recent items posted on a blog, using its RSS feed. (more…)

The view script for the feed/digest action is straightforward. If there is an error, that is rendered; otherwise, the feed digest is displayed. (more…)

The feed controller digest action handler is used to render a list of the five most recent blog posts on the specified blog, as exposed by the blog’s RSS feed. (more…)

The implementation of the AjaxFeedDigest view helper is contained in the file AjaxFeedDigest.php, which is located in the /application/views/helpers directory. (more…)

In a previous post, I looked at creating a custom resource plugin to create a logger. Since I wrote that code, a standard resource plugin to perform this function has been created. At first sight the standard plugin is inferior, in that the custom plugin allows for the insertion of a date into the log filename, which allows a new log to be created every day, while the standard plugin requires a fixed filename specified in the configuration file. However, I have worked out a simple mechanism for adding a date stamp to the filename, which I shall share in this article. (more…)

As with the other pages, the view script for the blogs page makes use of jQuery UI tabs. The special feature of this page compared to the others is that the number of tabs is dependent on the number of blogs in the database. (more…)

The Default_Model_Db_Mapper_Blog class is used to manage data exchange between the Default_Model_Db_Blog and the Default_Model_Db_Table_Blog classes; this exchange represents reading data from and writing data to the database. (more…)

The Default_Model_Db_Blog class is used to encapsulate the data contained in the rows of the blog table. (more…)