Zend Framework 1.7: Zend_Db_Table still sucks

Posted by John Kleijn • Sunday, November 30. 2008 • Category: Zend Framework

Zend Framework is now at version 1.7, adding better internationalization support, and supporting the Dijit Editor Widget. Ok, better internationalization support can only be good (since it was already more than decent), but the Editor Dijit should have been in 1.6. I gave the Dojo support in 1.6 a test drive when it was first released, only to find that it was mostly useless. Hopefully that has changed, I haven't tried it yet.

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Zend Framework Transform View

Posted by John Kleijn • Wednesday, July 30. 2008 • Category: Zend Framework

I implemented Transform View (XSLT) for Zend Framework. It's a relatively basic class that allows layout templates and calling Zend Framework View Helpers from XSL templates. Read on to view the class and some basic explanation.

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Gracefully Handling Catastrophic Disaster with Zend Framework

Posted by John Kleijn • Saturday, May 24. 2008 • Category: Zend Framework

Even in the best of applications, errors will occur. Zend Framework has a great feature to deal with uncaught exceptions: the error handler front controller plugin, or Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler.

In this post a quick example (or maybe not so quick – if you're in a hurry, come back later) of how to implement a relatively simple 'error controller' using Zend Framework.

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