Archive for September 19th, 2006
PHP Developer - September 19th, 2006
The Zend Developer Zone quickly points out that the latest eZ Systems newsletter has been released and it includes details on version 3.8.4, updated documentation, and a few other things.
This week’s newsletter brings news about an updated distribution package for eZ publish 3.8.4, new documentation for eZ publish upgrades and new information about eZ platform development. The newsletter also includes the weekly forum watch and an update about the current bug fix status.
They cover the update to eZ publish, the “Upgrade” section in the documentation, new advancements concerning eZ platform, and some interesting discussions going on over in their forums.
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PHP Developer - September 19th, 2006
Off of the Avatar Financial site, there’s a great list they’ve created to share a few things they’ve learned around a popular PHP framework - more specifically 21 things they’ve learned about CakePHP.
CakePHP is very new, so documentation beyond the basics is a bit sparse in areas. I built this website entirely using CakePHP and took notes along the way to share with others. While some of these items can be found in obvious places like the manual, others required a bit of elbow grease to figure out. My name is Matt Inman and your feedback is welcome, feel free to email me with questions or comments.
Things learned that are on the list include:
- Easily creating static pages
- Static pages - Adjusting other data sent to the layout
- Viewing the SQL queries that are running behind the scenes
- Using bake.php
- Complex model validation
- Creating a controller that uses other models
- Call exit() after redirecting
and many more. There’s lots of helpful tips here, especially if you’re new to CakePHP and want that extra leg up.
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PHP Developer - September 19th, 2006
Jared White has posted another Willowgarden highlight to his blog today, this time with a focus on the processing of form input.
In the bad old days of processing forms and saving each field to a column in a database row, you’d have to do a lot of manual gruntwork: accessing each field from the $_POST superglobal, checking the values, constructing the SQL query, connecting to the database and executing the query, and so forth. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just import the form right into an object, and let it do the validation and the database saving based on just a few simple rules? Let’s take a quick look at how that might work.
He shows how to make an instance of the WFFormCreator class in a simple script and add actions to it to handle the successful submission and the errors that might come up.
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PHP Developer - September 19th, 2006
Going along with the Roadmap update Zend has recently put out about it’s Framework, Andi Gutmans has also announced the introduction of more mailing lists to help developers communicate more effectively.
In line with the roadmap email, I’d like to form 8 new mailing lists which will make it easier for people to discuss/participate in subject areas which are of interest to them (actually 7 new ones as docs already exists).
I did think of calling the lists fwdev-* to note them as dev lists but I think it makes more sense to keep them open to the users. I find it very valuable to get users asking questions and commeting on functionality on the dev lists as that’s valuable input from the users.
The new mailing lists up and running. They are:
- fw-webservices@
- fw-mvc@
- fw-auth@
- fw-i18n@
- fw-db@
- fw-core@
- fw-formats@
To check out the topics that fall under each category, check out the sections of the roadmap.
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Dev Shed - September 19th, 2006
Oracle 1 G XE provides a wizard to help you create a table. The wizard walks you through several steps for creating a table taking you to the next step after you have entered valid entries for the current step. While scripts can be used to create a table creating a table using the visual form-based creation process is a lot simpler and less prone to errors. This tutorial describes a table to be created in the HR database with all the necessary ingredients for a typical database….
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