Archive for the 'Zend Framework' Category

Technorati API Down?

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

I have been working with a couple of web services lately (see prior post on Zend framework and Gdata), and upon deploying my application found out the technorati part of my site wasn’t working. I ran my unit tests, and multiple errors occured, saying the script wasn’t able to connect to the url:
Fatal error: Uncaught […]

Zend Framework and Youtube API

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I have been messing around with the different Zend_Service components available in the framework, and in general am very pleased with the ease of use and functionality. However, Zend_Gdata seems somewhat complicated. Now I must admit that I have not spent much time with classes, and I am sure the structure is set up to […]

Book Review : Zend Framework in Action

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

I signed up for the Manning early access program for Zend Framework in Action to get information on the ACL functionality in the framework and the book provided some useful examples. I was a bit underwhelmed by the content in the first release, but I guess that is to be expected when viewing a rough […]

Loading Zend Config file for a Cron Job

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

The other day I talked about using Apache Environment variables to determine which section of a config file to use for a Zend Framework website. That works swimmingly, however, I had a cron job that was running for the same site, and since it was piped directly to php, Apache Environment variables were not an […]

Traits for PHP

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Via blog, found a link to a proposal for Traits in PHP. I wasn’t familiar with the practice, but as I read the proposal it struck a cord with me. I have been grappling with how to reuse certain functionality throughout disparate classes.
I looked at Mixins, which I also have been playing around with […]