The Zend Framework in Practice

I have just put up the latest version of the GM-RAM website. In appearance, it is very similar to the old site; the main visual changes have been the switch to a three column layout, and the decision to dispense with jQuery UI tabs on the site pages. The content has hopefully been improved to make it clearer what GM-RAM does, including some of the projects we have been involed in. (more…)

This article looks at how to dynamically create a Google sitemap.xml file for your Zend Framework site. It assumes that you are using Zend_Navigation to describe the basic layout of your site. It also assumes that the application is based on Zend_Application and uses Zend_Layout. (more…)

In this post we will look at a custom view helper, which is used on the sample website to render a link to a page in the site navigation. (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…)

Zend_Navigation is a Zend Framework component used to represent the pages on a web site and transform this into things such as page navigation and Google sitemaps. The standard navigation resource plugin Zend_Application_Resource_Navigation can be used to configure an instance of Zend_Navigation. (more…)