The Zend Framework in Practice

The previous post discussed the implementation of the Login Controller; in this post, we will look at the implementation of the view script associated with the login/index action. (more…)

To quote the Lightbox 2 website:

Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

I decided to add the script to the GM-RAM website in order to allow visitors to view full-sized versions of the screen shots there without having to navigate to a separate page. (more…)

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…)

The application makes use of two stylesheets. The first is called default.css and is located in the htdocs/css directory. The second is called jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css and is located in the htdocs/css/smoothness, along with its associated image files; this was created using the jQuery UI ThemeRoller and is used by the jQuery UI components. We will be looking at the first of these in this article. (more…)