A Reflection On Adopting Zend Framework – One Year Later
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011About a year ago, I was introduced to Zend Framework as the framework I was going to be working with almost every day. And for nearly a year now, every day I have worked closely with Zend Framework, learning it’s intricacies and dealing with its warts. I sat down in March of last year and [...]
12:00 pm | Comment (10) | Print | Categories: Technology, Web Architecture, Zend FrameworkRevisiting: Why Every Developer Should Write Their Own Framework
Monday, May 24th, 2010In November of 2009, I wrote about why developers should write their own frameworks. I pointed out at the time that often developing a framework forces developers to make the kinds of architectural choices that frameworks require, which helps them better understand the architectural choices in the most popular frameworks.
7:00 am | Comment (8) | Print | Categories: Object-Oriented Development, Open Source, Technology, Zend FrameworkA Lesson In Static Methods And Late Static Binding
Monday, April 12th, 2010Until last week, I had never experienced what must have been incredibly frustrating to most developers: the fact that the self keyword in PHP refers to the class it is located in, and not necessarily a class that extends it. I personally ran into this problem when trying to extend Zend_Auth. Being a singleton, the [...]
7:00 am | Comment (4) | Print | Categories: Object-Oriented Development, PHP 5, Technology, Zend FrameworkCaching For Efficiency With Zend Framework
Monday, April 5th, 2010One of the things I’m always looking for is ways to improve performance with the applications I write. While a few applications are write-heavy, most are read-heavy: that is, reading the database is the predominant behavior (for example, this WordPress blog reads the database far more often than it writes to the database). Additionally, Zend [...]
7:00 am | Comment (16) | Print | Categories: Technology, Zend FrameworkControlling Access: Zend_Navigation and Zend_Acl
Friday, April 2nd, 2010In the last two entries, we examined creating a navigation structure with Zend_Navigation, and then we examined using that structure with the Zend Navigation View Helper. In both discussions, we focused on creating navigation items and menus, and inherently these items were available to all users regardless of access controls. But what happens when you [...]
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