Monthly Archives: July 2010

Which Model Should Contain That Method?

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Stoimen

Let’s say you have two models – each one modeling a database table – Users & Article. Here there’s nothing to deal with Zend Framwork, but you can think of them as typical models in a ZF application. What happens … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, web development | Tagged Business/Finance, Computer science, Computing, Data management, Database, Database management systems, Databases, From, Human Interest, IBM software, SQL, SQL keywords, Technology/Internet, zend | 1 Comment

Are You Agile?

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Stoimen

Agile you are? Perhaps Master Yoda would say that, but it’s interesting to know what methodology do you use in your work. Any answers will be highly appreciated, so here are some basic questions: Do you follow any software development … Continue reading →

Posted in web development | Tagged agile, methodologies, poll, software development | 1 Comment

Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists in Zend Framework 1.10+

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Stoimen

Zend_Validate_Db_RecodExists is an extremely useful validator in Zend Framework when you’d like to be sure that a give row exists. Now it seems to be even better. Before you could check for a specific row by only comparing a value … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, zend framework | Tagged Column, Computing, Data modeling, PHP programming language, Row, Software engineering, Web 2.0, Web application frameworks, zend framework | Leave a comment

Setting Up Global Cache in Zend Framework

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Stoimen

In a large scale web application, especially based on Zend Framework, there are lot’s of components that support built in cache support. Such are Zend_Db, Zend_Translate, Zend_Date, etc. Also you may need cache support wherever in the app, so my … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, zend framework | Tagged Computer programming, Computing, controller, Front Controller pattern, Human Interest, large scale web application, PHP, PHP For Applications, PHP programming language, Software engineering, Software framework, Technology/Internet, zend framework, Zend Technologies | 2 Comments

Zend Framework: Connect MySQL

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Stoimen

There are so many tutorials about that, but let me add it one more time. You’ve to use the PDO_MYSQL adapter: // where params include adapter, host // username, password and dbname $db = new Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql($params); and set the default … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, zend framework | Tagged Adapter pattern, Applied mathematics, Bootstrapping, Computing, controller, MySQL, MySQL Americas Inc., Resampling, Software design patterns, Statistical inference, Statistics | Leave a comment