The Zend Framework in Practice

At the moment I am working on create a system that allows non-technical users to easily add and edit product pages on one of the website I have developed. Until now, adding or modifying a page has required modifications to the database and/or a PHP script file, along with uploading any new resources, such as images or documents. This has meant in practice that either I or one of the more technically minded people at the client has tended to do these changes. The idea of the new system is that it will allow anyone to add/edit product pages. (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…)

The visual implementation of the contact page is similar to that of the home page, as described in the post The Home Page. However, it also makes use of Zend_Form and Zend_Validate to render and process the contact form, and Zend_Layout, Zend_Filter and Zend_Mail to render and send the contact e-mail to the site admin. (more…)

We looked at Zend_Layout in general terms in the previous now; now we are going to examine the main layout script used in the sample application. (more…)

The Zend Framework is shipped with a template module called Zend_Layout. This allows the specific content for a page to be injected into one or more places in some standard content. (more…)

The Zend Framework offers a template module called Zend_Layout. This is primarily used to render the standard parts of a web page, such as the header, sidebars and footer, and to insert the variable content into placeholders. However, it can also be used to render other things with standard layouts, such as e-mails. We shall have a look at examples of both in later posts. (more…)