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I dedicated a bit of my time to develop a port of the Naked Objects framework for Java, which I named NakedPhp . Essentially, the Naked Obj...

Jebb wrote to me asking information about the Repository pattern: I read your blog at http://giorgiosironi.blogspot. com/ and I found it v...

Some readers have been confused by the terms I use often in reference to Object relational mappers , so I want to describe some concepts of ...

 Last week I was asked by a client: You used Zend Framework for this small php application. From 1 to 10 [which is the grade framework in I...

Saturday is becoming the 'questions day of week', since it is not the first time that after a week of work some readers email me t...

This morning I have tried for the first time to use Doctrine 2 in a Zend Framework application. I used the latest release, 2.0.0 alpha3 , ...

Every once in a while, in a post, I say: The Domain Model should not depend on anything else; it is the core of an application. Classes sh...

Lazy loading is the capability of performing a expensive operation on demand, only when it reveals necessary from a client request: in the O...

Php has a useful var_dump() function that helps debugging and unit tests writing by providing a text dump of all the properties of an obje...

The validity of Naked Objects pattern, if implemented successfully, can add value to the php scene and help to answer the "Is Php read...

What is lazy loading? A practice in object/relational mapping which simulate the presence of the whole object graph in memory. There is some...

In the last weeks I started to contribute with code to the Doctrine project . Doctrine is an Orm and database abstraction layer for php: it...

Here is a list of tips for Doctrine usage in php projects, ranging from hydration to magic method. They are valid for the 1.x versions. ...