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How to on building a feed reader with the Zend Framework, Smarty and HTML Ajax.

The first part in a series on how to write a combination of a CMS and community with the Zend Framework and the Smarty templating system.

Is Zend_Config suited for all your needs? Probably not and it is not supposed to. Yet you might have some peculiar project requirements. For example, you might want to use pre-defined PHP constants in your ini or xml configuration files. Let's find out how that could be done.

This tutorial describes how to use the Smarty templating engine and the Zend Framework in order to create easily portable widgets.

Shows how to use the Zend Controller with the PEAR package HTML_Ajax.

This article explains how to create a custom route and a custom router that use the database to determine which controller will be used. This is used because the writer wants to use short URLs like site.com/page and re-use controllers for multiple page-types in a CMS.

When working with views in the Zend Framework, you normally have a view for each action in your controllers. Each of the views run a view script, which then include header and footer views in them. This may lead to some repetitive code and may cause a problem if you want to modify the way the header and footer are included in your views. A better approach could be to use a "layout". A layour is a master view, perhaps similar to the master page in ASP.NET - it has the header, footer and all other code except the content. It effectively replaces the header and footer and is used to include the content (the action view script) inside itself instead of the action view script including the header and footer.

Zend_Db_Table does a great job of abstracting database tables, but it's really intended to hit one database per application. This tutorial demonstrates a method of using as many databases as you want by simply specifying them in your config file.

So I decided to write a bit about my experience and implementation of the Zend_Acl component, it's a bit rough but I hope it gives an idea of how to possibly implement Zend_Acl. Let me know if there's anything not very clear, I'm no english major so there's bound to be some awful sections.

I recently needed to port some existing php code which used Ajax over to the Zend Framework. While there are several tutorials out there with lots of details, I didn’t find a simple example that would just get me started with how to work Ajax calls into the MVC framework architecture. Eventually, I figured things out by referring to several different tutorials and doing a good amount of Googling. I decided it might be useful to have a very simple example of porting an existing Ajax app to the Zend Framework.