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Every now and then I see questions about ACL and how to use it. A lot of web developers are using it without actually knowing what it is and how it works, even though it’s powering one of the most important part of applications – user access management. So this series will explain that from [...]

Zend Framework is always considered as being the slow/bloated one. I don’t think this is right, so I decided to prove that it’s not correct and in fact ZF is as good as other frameworks are. This post doesn’t cover any benchmarks though; this is more like a architecture review and some misconceptions disproof. [...]

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 [...]

As you might have noticed I mostly write about Zend Framework and related content. This has a lot of underlying reasons, so I decided to wrap up my thoughts about it and why to (not)use Zend Framework for your own projects. This is not a comparison of frameworks though, because I don’t feel like [...]

During last two months I spent massive amount of time tweaking Doctrine ORM framework and making it to perform as fast as possible (as you might have noticed from my never ending tweets). This post is devoted to performance and efficiency, with practical tips & tricks how to reduce memory usage, make it work [...]

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). [...]

If you are following twitter (you can find me there also) or any other social network, you might have noticed that there is a huge interest in Doctrine and Zend Framework integration. Since I’ve been using these libraries for quite a while now, so I’m going to explain some best practices and ways you can [...]

Stuart Herbert in his blog more than a year ago pointed some key Microsoft Sql extension for PHP pros:
What’s Wrong With The Existing MSSQL Extension For PHP?
… or, why do we need an improved SQL Server extension for PHP? :)
The existing MSSQL extension works well, but has a few practical limitations that have to be [...]

My task today was to make Rob Allen’s Zend framework tutorial project run on Windows. Some years ago such task could have been a problem, but as you will see, now it’s nothing special.
To start with, Windows sometimes really annoys. For example, by default I can’t add files to C:\inetpub\wwwroot. It doesn’t ask for “Allow/Cancel?“, [...]