Posts tagged ‘models’

Zend Framework tips and tricks

January 29th, 2010

It’s always good to use great tools, but you need to make sure that you use them correctly, not just trying to code “just for it to work”. For this reason I decided to write down my usual list of things I mention when taking over some legacy project or just consulting someone how [...]

Service Layer in Web applications

November 26th, 2009

In my professional live I mostly work with enterprise web applications which are quite demanding for big layer of business logic (that’s another article I guess) and decoupling of application layers. During this year I invested quite a lot for a search of a good ways to architecture a big application and make it simply [...]

Today we start actual development with Doctrine and Zend Framework. Base of this post is my code which I have been using for quite a few projects and it worked really well.
These are the steps required to setup Doctrine:

Create MySQL (or any other adapter supported by Doctrine) database
Download Doctrine 1.2 (as of today – 1.2.0beta3). [...]

Currently I’m working on a new project which works on Zend Framework. I really like this framework and it has been my favourite for quite a long time – I especially like it’s standalone components and huge space for your personal programming style. But… I don’t know how to correctly implement modularity in Zend Framework.
I [...]