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I've proposed myself for becoming the Zend_Debug maintainer for the 2.x iteration of Zend Framework. Actually it is composed by a single...

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...

I am halfway through reading Growing object-oriented software, guided by tests , a book that teaches Test-Driven Development in a Java envir...

This is my personal review of Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development , a book by Keith Pope (affiliate link). First, a clarificat...

I have started reading the book Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development , by Keith Pope (affiliate link). From a first impression,...

 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...

Once upon a time, there was the php include() construct. Reusing part of pages and other code was as simply as: <?php include 'tabl...

Sune wrote to me yesterday with some questions about testing Zend Framework controllers and proper dependency injection, which to me is a ...

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 , ...

In the previous post I hacked-up a very small component for automating dependency injection of php classes, which mimic the behavior of the...

There has already been a bit of discussion in the zf-contributors mailing list and in the wiki about the Zend Framework 2.0 roadmap , which...

I just wrote in a comment that Zend Framework 2.x did not yet exist and, today, the lead developer Matthew Weier O'Phinney has posted t...

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...

David Weinraub has written to me asking some basic questions about my last post on dropping unit testing for controllers. I am glad to wri...

Yesterday on twitter a discussion started about how to properly design Zend Framework action controllers to allow simplicity of testing, spe...

Zend_Auth is the component of the Zend Framework which provides a standard authentication mechanism for web applications users. It has few...

Zend_Form is the component of Zend Framework that I enjoy the most: it implements reusable forms and inputs as classes and objects, with au...

Before the introduction of autoloading, every php class had to be explicitly included before being available, referencing its physical file....

I think object-oriented programming techniques should be explained with a context and not shouted out loud as philosophical principles. Som...