Zend Form Mastery with Zend Config

This is a Multi Part Series. Check out the other parts: Part 1 – Custom Filter Paths Part 2 – Core Form Configuration Part 4 – Configuring Zend Validators Options We’ve looked at custom form filters and we’ve looked at the core form configuration. But what about the other form properties? What about: setting an [...]

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Zend Form Mastery with Zend Config

Today we move on in learning how to configure the basics of Zend Forms, such as: action, method, enctype, accept, accept-charset et al with Zend Config XML. It couldn’t be simpler.

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PHP Cloud Development Casts

You’ve watched RailsCasts, you’ve watched ZendCasts – but what about screencasts for PHP Cloud Development techniques? Well we decided to commit to the project and make it happen and have begun development on a new site that both pays homage to RailsCasts and ZendCasts and is devoted to bringing you, once a month (potentially once a fortnight) a screencast about a technique of cloud development through the lens of PHP.

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Zend Form Mastery with Zend Config

When you’re working with Zend Form you keep your configuration as much out of code as you can – right? Well, if you’ve been working withZend Form for more than a little while, you know that Zend Config really makes that pretty simple – well, some of the time. In this series we look, comprehensively at how to do it all with Zend_Config.

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Reflections on PHP Development

Well, it’s been a little while since I last wrote an entry for the blog. It’s tough to keep writing some times, but I realise that that’s no excuse. To be honest, I’ve been flat out on a few projects recently, including one really enjoyable – yet testing – Zend framework-based application, that’s kept me [...]

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Cloud Development with cloudControl on Malt Blue

In this, part four of the Beginning Cloud Development with cloudControl series, we’re going to speed up the work we undertook with MySQL in part 2 by adding Memcached support. So easy and so very painless.

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A new beginning at Malt Blue

Well, it’s been a good year with a steady increase in site numbers all round, but it’s become apparent over the last few months that the site needs to start to differentiate itself from the crowd and begin to provide a clearer reason for being amongst all of the other PHP-related sites out there on the net.

So what better time to do this, than the start of a new year – 2012.

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Cloud Development with cloudControl on Malt Blue

In this, part 3 of the Beginning Cloud Development with cloudControl series, we integrate mongoDB support in to our application. Honestly, nothing could be simpler than this, especially as we’re using the Shanty Mongo library for Zend Framework. Read on to find out how to do it.

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Cloud Development with cloudControl on Malt Blue

So you’ve gotten started with cloudControl; you’ve got a basic understanding of how to deploy with it. But today we take that further, showing you the MySQL add on and multi-environment deployment.

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Cloud Development with cloudControl on Malt Blue

So you’ve heard all about the cloud. In the current day and age, you’d have to be living under a rock to have not encountered it by now. Whether it’s Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft or Apple’s iCloud, The Cloud is Everywhere! But these aren’t the only options available. Introducing cloudControl.

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