PHP Developer - December 31st, 2007
On the Zend Developer Zone a new post points out feature that the controllers of the Zend Framework has - parameters on the actions.
Basically, Zend_Controller_Action is the parent of all of the controllers in your application. This controller is what C stands for in MVC, a design pattern used lately in web application development, especially in RIA development.
The post includes a tutorial on using the parameters in an example of a design pattern.
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PHP Developer - December 28th, 2007
Ivo Jansch is very happy to announce that it’s official - he will be authoring a book for php|architect all about PHP in the Enterprise:
It will be one of the first books about PHP that will not cover PHP code. It is loosely based on my ‘enterprise PHP development’ talk at the Zend UK Business Conference last year. It will cover the entire development lifecycle of a software project, but targeted at PHP development teams.
He points out that the first version of the book will be handed in in March so ideally it will be released soon after that. He’s also open to ideas/content suggestions/etc that you might want to post to his blog for consideration.
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PHP Developer - December 28th, 2007
Evan Sims has official released his first version of a library he’s worked up to interface PHP with the GameFly.com video game rental service:
I’m releasing libGameFly, a PHP class for interacting with GameFly.com - the video game rental service. At the moment it’s very simple, just allowing you to expose your GameFly queue as a native PHP class and doing… well, whatever the hell you want with it.
It works with some of the feed functionality (RSS/APIs) to grab data about users’ accounts. You can download the code here from the project’s Google Code page.
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PHP Developer - December 28th, 2007
The ProDevTips website has posted part seven of their series covering the construction of a community site (or CMS) with the combination of Smarty and the Zend Framework.
Since XOOPS didn’t do it for me when it comes to this project I have started with the blog component. As it turns out, a blog is more complicated than you would think. Therefore this part will not cover the whole component, only as far as I’ve gotten at the moment. Covering the whole process in one piece would make it a very long piece indeed.
He provides the code examples and complete SQL structure to get the blog up and rolling as well as some handy tips and explanations along the way.
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