Continuing along with my movies model, I discovered a few things. First, the init I had in my movies controller is outdated (init was part of ZF1 not ZF2) and can be removed as it doesn't actually do anything. 😛 Our books arrived and I'm already seeing some interesting stuff in […]
As I've been going through building my app for the Practical Learning series, one thing that has been bugging me is the way we had to prepend/append the individual divs for each form row item in our forms. It seemed to be a great way to introduce errors and inconsistency […]
After a bit of final tweaking from what I did in part 4, such as adding those owned counts to the other lists of attributes I'd already made (formats, genres, et al), it was time to tackle the last of the CRUD functions, and the biggest. Namely the manager for the […]
As I mentioned in part 3, I went ahead and made models for the genres, studios, and series. Then I started working on bulking up some of the interfaces. For example, I wanted to see how many titles are in a set genre, series, etc. Let's look at the series area […]
I thought I was trucking along pretty well with Zend (ZF2), but in discussing our progress, I've come to realize that my partner's code is completely different from mine. I've been using the first tutorial (the "Album" one) as a guide while he used the second ("the task list) which […]
One thing the example from the tutorial was lacking was pushing out return messages. The code kind of automatically tells you if there was an error, but the failed validation return was kind of ugly. We also like to let our users know something worked as well, otherwise they think […]
So now that I have a view working, time to dump the default layout/design and try and get my own working. Yeah! But first, taking out the translation functionality, as I don't need/want it. That just requires removing the translator alias and configuration options from the module.config.php and deleting the language […]
The Zend tutorial is certainly useful for getting your toes wet and figuring out the basics. Alas, like most such tutorials, though, it deals with a very basic application – single table, only a few fields, with just a few crud functions. While my partner figures out some other stuff with the […]
This morning, we finished getting the Zend server installed on our dev box, so we can take advantage of that option with our applications, and got the Zend Framework in place. Getting the skeleton app going was easy, just download, unzip, upload, then run the three composer commands. Only minor hiccup […]
So today my partner and I really sat down to talk about the issues we've been having with CakePHP and to start the decision making process. We once again started researching the various framework options, including talking about the potential cons of using one of the "dead" ones, like CodeIgniter. As […]