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  Zend_Application and Zend_Acl

  08.16.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  One of the more frustrating things about using Zend Framework is that for pretty much any topic, there is always at least 2 ways to accomplish a particular task. For a beginner with the framework, this is a humungous barrier to overcome. When I try to implement something, my first question is no longer "how [...]

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  Fun with custom Zend_Views

  06.24.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  The other day I had a nice meeting in my basement lair with my co-workers. We laughed. We cried. We had some BBQ'd burgers, and nobody got food poisoning. As we discussed the implementation of our new fantasy gaming platform, I managed to figure out that one requirement was for an admin to upload a [...]

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  Testing Controllers Hiding Behind Zend_Auth

  06.03.10 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  (Note, this example was using Zend Framework 1.10, so things might change going forwards). As a lapsed tester, I've made the commitment to build out our Zend Framework powered application using tests going forward. The first two modules for the app *should* have been done with tests, and for that I hang my head with [...]

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  Is There A More Practical Approach To TDD?

  03.30.10 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  One of the things I (foolishly perhaps) promised myself when I started up a new project at work was that I was going to use Test Driven Development (or TDD for short). I advocated using a web application framework that supports good testing practices and discussed how it would be beneficial when trying to track [...]

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  “U R Doin It Wrong” – Adventures with flexible forms in Zend Framework

  03.19.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Zend_Form is a super-powerful, force-of-nature tool. By force-of-nature I mean it does all this crazy stuff, and you can see it doing it, but I am not alone in admitting that taming it sometimes is very difficult. When building tools to make form programatically you either severely limit peoples options or make it so flexible [...]

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