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Posted Under 'Zend Framework'

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I decided to start a Zend Framework bundle for TextMate. Then I decided to make a screencast of it. These are both firsts. Find out more about it.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Zend_Db_Table and Zend_Db_Table_Row provide a great base for the “model” portion of the MVC paradigm implemented by the Zend Framework. Zend_Db_Table abstracts an underlying database table, and Zend_Db_Table_Row abstracts a row. They provide normalized functionality, are database agnostic, and offer other types of slickness that won’t be covered here. If you haven’t experimented with Zend_Db [...]

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

A Zend_Form is (or at least, can be) an unfortunate mish-mash of logical and visual rules. Instead of designing how the form will render visually using HTML in a .phtml file, like everything else that’s rendered, there are a bunch of programmatic hoops to jump through to set up the visual properties in code using [...]