Perhaps “debugging” is a bit too strong. However when you’re dumping an array in PHP, you’d probably prefer the print_r or var_dump.
echo '<pre>'; print_r($array); echo '</pre>'; |
But did you know that in Zend Framework there’s a built in Zend_Debug?
Zend_Debug::dump($array); |
Does pretty much the same thing!
I recently upgraded from the old Zend Framework 1.9.5 to the latest – 1.10.3. Everything just looked to be working quite fine, except the date formatting. Although I had the same date formatting and options in the old version it seems to be not working.
I had the format_type set to PHP and even though I formatted the dates with a Zend Framework specific format: “d MMM yyyy”.
Zend_Date::setOptions(array('format_type' => 'php')); // ... $date = new Zend_Date($somedate); echo $date->get('d MMM yyyy'); |
Now as it appears format_type php in 1.10.3 is giving completely different result, and the correct format is date() like format in PHP.
Zend_Date::setOptions(array('format_type' => 'php')); // ... $date = new Zend_Date($somedate); echo $date->get('d M yy'); |
Actually there are two syntactic valid ways to access the layout() helper of the Zend_View.
First one is the more clean way:
$this->view->layout() |
While the second calls the _helper member variable
$this->_helper->layout() |
If you’re a Zend Framework developer, you’d know the built-in Zend_Db_Table methods insert(), update(), etc.
However the general approach there is like is said:
$data = array(); $data['key'] = $value; $model = new ModelName(); $model->insert($data); // that's very basic example, but in general this is // the way it works. |
What happens if one of the column have to be an MySQL expression!? In example you’ve a date field and you’d like to insert something like the MySQL’s method NOW().
The solution is simply call a Zend_Db_Expr.
$data = array(); $data['key'] = $value; $data['date'] = new Zend_Db_Expr('NOW()'); $model = new ModelName(); $model->insert($data); // now the date column will be NOWed :) |
Pure phpiers are using used to something like detecting a submit in the _POST array.
if (isset($_POST['submit']) { ... } |
Of course for this you’ve to be sure the HTML contains an submit type element with name attribute equal to “submit”.
Simply replace the line above with:
if ($this->getRequest()->isPost()) { ... } |
This is way better than the first example. It detects the request method, not an array element!?