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…)

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…)

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…)

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