Zend Framework

Accessing ZF Application Resources In Controller

My friend Rob Allen recently posted a quick how-to on how to access your configuration data in application.ini file while in a controller or action helper. The one part Rob didn’t touch on was how to get resources back.

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ZF Curly Quote Character Filter

If your like me and have people who like to write stuff in MS Office first and then post it to the web you get the silly quotes and such that word uses. The quotes and such are not valid UFT-8 and that’s how I like to store my data in my database so it usually dumps out with an error.

I’ve come up with the following Zend_Filer_Interface so that way you can plug it into anything that has the ability to use Zend_Filter.

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Zend Framework 1.8 Released

As I’m sure everyone is almost aware by now Zend Framework 1.8 has been released. This is an extra special release for me as I spend two good weeks back in March writing the Ec2 Component after being pinged by Zend to do it.

It was fun writing it and learning more that I ever wanted to know about the Ec2 API’s but all it all it was a great expierice and I’m glad that I got the chance to do it.

Other notable items in the 1.8 release are:

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Zend Framework Ec2 API

So about two weeks ago Wil Sinclair from Zend pinged me about creating an Zend Framework API interface for Amazon Ec2. I was coming off of playing around with Ec2 for work and figured I would give it a shot. With the proposal filed I began the task of coding it out. After two weeks of writing code I had a working interface for the Query API from Amazon.

I do have to say I learned a lot while doing the inital work and I’m happy that Wil pinged me to do it. If you want to check out the code currently it lives on github but it is on track to make the 1.8 release of Zend Framework.

Please leave a commet here or on the proposal for anything that I may have over looked or if you have any ideas on how I could make it better.

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Browser Caching with Zend Framework

While watching the Zend Devzone RSS feed they posted a link to an article that talks about using the Etag Header to make ZF more cache friendly to the browser.

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Zend Studio for Eclipse – New Framework Project Problems

While working on a new project where my base was Zend Framework I desided to give the default layout for new ZF projects in Zend Studio for Eclipse a chance. While it does start a good layout for a project by generating the default code which is a real time saver I did notice some problems.

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