Category: Zend Framework

November 18, 2013

Easy page scraping with Zend\Dom (from Zend Framework 2)

The other day I was interested in getting some information from the sussex.academia.edu site, specifically I wanted a list of tags for each of the faculty members. Now, this sounds relatively easy except when you consider that initial page contains a list of links to various schools/departments people have listed, and then under each of those pages you have different fieldsets...

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August 23, 2012

Zend Framework 2 – JSON-RPC Server

Creating a JSON-RPC server in ZF2 is very similar to how you would do it in ZF1, so you could pretty much follow the documentation for version 1. However, here is an example of how to implement with version 2.

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October 31, 2010

Extend Zend_View_Stream to easily escape view variables

Zend_View_Stream is used pretty much when ever you use Zend_View, and I’ve blogged about how handy it is before.  But as it’s a class like any other, you can extend it to give added functionality.  One such use is to add automatic escaping to your view variables when you want.  So instead of doing: [code lang=”php”] <?php echo $this->escape($this->var); ?>...

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February 10, 2010

QrCode view helper

You see QrCodes popping up every now and again on sites, in publications and the like. I think they can be a very handy way for people with cameras on their phones to get a url or other content on to their phone very easily. (I’m thinking more about those people without iPhones or full keyboards, of course!) If you’ve...

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January 28, 2010

Adding new items to RSS feed – it shouldn’t be this hard!

I have just started to use the Zend_Feed related components in earnest and am really liking the Zend_Feed_Writer (new to ZF 1.10.0). So what I wanted to do was created an RSS feed file is one didn’t exist and then keep updating that file as-and-when new items came in. Seems a really easy and simple thing to do, right? That,...

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January 18, 2010

Zend_Form decorators webinar

If you’re not sure about Zend_Form’s decorators, what they are or how to use them, then Matthew Weier O’Phinney has the webinar for you: http://www.zend.com/webinar/Framework/webinar-leveraging-zend_form-decorators-20091216.flv It’s a great introduction to decorators, how to implement them and how to do slightly more complex things with them. Well worth a watch!

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March 24, 2009

Zend Framework hidden gems

Sometimes you come across hidden little gems in the Zend Framework that save you time, even if that’s just down to the amount of text you need to type. The Zend_View holds one of these little gems… Did you know that you can use the short php open tags and echo tag in your view scripts, and you don’t even...

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February 15, 2009

Shorten urls automatically with a Zend Framework filter

I think we can all agree that URL shortening services are great and are very handy to tidy up those long and obnoxious links. However, a lot of the time people simply forget to use them, or often don’t know about them in the first place. I’ve noticed this in a blog system I wrote using Zend Framework. On one...

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September 23, 2008

Quick and easy email encoding view helper

Here’s a quick and easy view helper for Zend Framework that will encode an email address. It will encode just an email address or return a whole mailto link. The encoding is basically the same as in the Smarty template engine. Obviously there’s a lot of room for improvement; javascript encoding, representation as an image, and so on… but then...

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August 1, 2008

Zend Framework 1.6RC1

If you haven’t heard already, Zend Framework 1.6RC1 is out and has lots of interesting new features. Finally there’s a SOAP component (seemed odd to me to have an enterprise-level framework without it!) There’s also a paginator, XML configs can have attributes, Dojo integration and lots more. It’s been out for about 10 days as of the time I write...

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