I’ve been working with Zend Studio for quite a while now. And actually, I was pretty happy with Zend Studio aka Eclipse. If you install Zend Studio you’ll get a very nice integrated development environment with everything a programmer needs: a text editor (well, that’s no surprise), a built in debugger, a ready to use profiler, SVN client, and so on.
However, I really hate Zend Studio when in comes to performance. It takes ages to start up (and believe me, I have a pretty fast machine here) and if Eclipse is updating its whatsoever-files you can start your coffee break because the text editor gets freakingly slow. Continue Reading
Posted February 28th, 2012. Add a comment

Under Construction
A few months ago, I wrote an article about how to implement an “under maintenance” plugin using Zend Framework plugins. This plugin allows you to easily redirect users of your website to an “under maintenance” in case of a planned downtime. Simply set a flag in your application.ini and that’s it. In this post we will extend this plugin.
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Posted January 18th, 2012. Add a comment - 1 pingback / trackback
It’s finally done. The project that I’ve been working on during the last couple of months is online. Basically, Scoops is a Semantic Web application that enables you to… well, maybe it’s easier if you simply have a look at it ;-).
Some technical notes: the project has been implemented using Zend Framework on the server-side and jQuery on the client-side. The backend (the process that crawls the web, analyzes & organizes text, and calculates a relevance for each user) uses dozens of free or commercial web services.
Posted January 12th, 2012. Add a comment
Version 1.0.1 of ZIDS (Zend Framework Intruder Detection System) has been released. You may download the source code here (Google Code).
If you don’t know yet what ZIDS is, or want to know how it works, please have a look at the manual
Posted August 9th, 2011. 1 comment
Žilvinas Šaltys has written a very nice article about how to extend the default Zend Framework Error Controller
The main disadvantage of the default error controller is that it does not notify developers of the errors that occurred and instead silently logs them. Many enterprise web applications will find this unacceptable and will try to implement their means of solving the issue. In this post I’ll try to show how a more advanced Zend Framework error controller could be implemented to help developers tackle errors quickly.
via Zend Framework Advanced Error Controller – The Developer Day.
If you read my post regarding how to integrate Doctrine using the Zend Framework, you might also be interested in this post written by Matthew Weier O’Phinney on how to autoload Doctrine and Doctrine entities using the Zend Framework.
Posted February 12th, 2011. Add a comment - 1 pingback / trackback
A few days ago I stumbled uppon an Open Source project that I find very useful: ZFDataGrid. ZFDataGrid enables you to automatically display data stemming from Zend_Table, an array, Doctrine, etc. as a table. Continue Reading
Posted January 30th, 2011. 4 comments - 1 pingback / trackback
Version 0.6.1 of ZIDS (Zend Framework Intruder Detection System) has been released. You may download the source code here (Google Code).
If you don’t know yet what ZIDS is, or want to know how it works, please have a look at the manual
Posted November 13th, 2010. 1 comment
Unfortunately, I didn’t had the time to participate in this years ZendCon :-(. For all those of you who had the same problem: here are the slides of the talks. Nearly all of the slides are very interesting for all those of you involved in any kind of web project. Continue Reading
Posted November 9th, 2010. 1 comment
The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the general access release of Zend Framework 1.11.0. This release is the culmination of several months of effort by contributors and Zend Framework partners, and offers several key new features, including support for mobile devices and the first stable release of the SimpleCloud API.
You may download the release from the following location:
http://framework.zend.com/download/latest
via Zend Framework 1.11.0 FINAL Released.
Posted November 2nd, 2010. Add a comment