The Zend Framework in Practice

I have described how to use Zend_Feed to retrieve a digest of a blog’s latest entries in a previous post. In the overall implementation described in my series of posts, this digest is fetched every time a page is loaded. Although, by using AJAX techniques, this does not slow the loading of the basic page, it does result in some unnecessary repetitive work, since the blogs are not updated that often. In this post, I shall look at how I am using caching on the recently revamped GM-RAM website to save the results and reuse them. (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 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 implementation of the AjaxFeedDigest view helper is contained in the file AjaxFeedDigest.php, which is located in the /application/views/helpers directory. (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…)

As with the home page, the view script for the contact page makes use of jQuery UI tabs. See the post The Home Page for more information the ZendX_JQuery view helpers used here to generate the necessary markup and JavaScript. (more…)

The implementation of the about page is similar to that of the home page, as described in the post The Home Page. (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…)

The home page is rendered by the index action handler of the index controller. (more…)