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The ext js framework has a great grid component. In this tutorial I explain how you can provide it with data from a zend framework application

in this tutorial, we will design a sample application for the zend framework, putting an emphasis on application design. Starting from the models we will work our way up to a more or less complete application.

All exceptions thrown by Zend Framework classes should throw an exception that derives from the base class Zend_Exception.

With the current Zend Framework Beta 0.9.2 release the Zend_Log component has been improved with a new fully object oriented design. There are lots of new features including Writers, Filters, Formatters and Events to discover and use in custom applications. The log Priorities have been doubled from 4 to 8 in the current release and it's now possible to add user defined log Priorities via the Zend_Log addPriority method. Due to the use of one of PHP magic functions it's even possible to send messages of the log Priority type simply by calling the 'priorityName()' method, i.e. $logger->audit('Auditional message'), of the Zend_Log object without further ado.

In the new Zend_Log component of the Zend Framework Beta 0.9.2 release there are currently two log Filter available. The Zend_Log_Filter_Priority object can be used to filter out log Events having a log Priority greater than a specified log Priority value. The other Filter named Zend_Log_Filter_Message might be used to filter out specific log messages matching a Regular expression. The realization of a own Filter can be achieved quick and easy by implementing the Zend_Log_Filter_Interface interface.

The class constant Zend_Version::VERSION contains a string that identifies the current version number of Zend Framework. For example, "0.9.0beta".

The Zend_Loader class includes methods to help you load files dynamically.

One thing I like about Grails (being based on rails, I assume it stems from thereÂ…) is that it allows quite easy definition of constraints that the model classes should adhere to.

IÂ’ve been working a lot lately with the Zend Framework for a project at work, and in a recent upgrade from 0.8.0 Preview to 0.9.1 Beta, I made a few discoveries that IÂ’d like to share, especially since the manual for the Zend Framework is sorely out of date, and many of the examples are either deprecated or no longer work.