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This tutorial is intended to give a very basic introduction to using Zend_Auth for authentication of users. It builds on the Getting Started with the Zend Framework tutorial, so please read that one first!

After getting a little impatient looking at PHP code from however many projects and seeing the typical approach of making input filtering, sql and output escaping the responsibility of the human error-prone developer, I'm now making it standard practice on any of the projects I run to dump this sorry mess. And it is usually a mess.
The fact is you cannot trust a developer to manually secure source code - it's like God relaying the Ten Commandments to Moses. No matter how many burning bushes, prophets, unnatural disasters, signs and miracles you use to emphasis those ten simple rules, you can still wager there will be a bunch of folk breaking them (including myself!) left, right and centre. It's human nature to err. It's my nature to make the verb "err" redundant.

This article explains basics of content syndications and demonstrates how to use Zend Framework Zend_Feed classes for consuming a news feed of your site.

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Beta, I made a few discoveries that IÂ’d like to share, especially since the manual for the Zend Framework is sorely out of date, and many of the examples are either deprecated or no longer work.

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.

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

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

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.

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.