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…)

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…)

The blogs page on the GM-RAM website is used to display details of the company-sponsored blogs, including a digest of the five most recent posts. Like the other pages on the site, it displays its content within a series of tabs. The first tab simply contains some general comments about the blogs; each blog then has its own tab. (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…)