More Reliable Authentication in Zend Framework
Stefan Esser gave a presentation on Secure Programming with the Zend Framework at the 2009 Dutch PHP Conference. While the presentation was good, one thing that bothered me was the way authentication...
View ArticleWhy I am not running to Solar
Some of my thoughts on Paul M. Jones post about Solar and Zend Framework. This is less of a defense of Zend Framework and more of a commentary on Paul's framework ideas. I favor design by contract so...
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Zend_Soap_AutoDiscover and eAccelerator
The Zend Framework ships with SOAP functionality and one especially neat class called Zend_Soap_AutoDiscover. This class uses a comment docblock to auto-generate a WSDL at runtime. I won't go into...
View ArticleSpeaking at Jan. 20th LA LAMP meetup
I will be giving a short presentation on HauteLook's architecture at the LA LAMP meetup on January 20th. I have been meaning to join a user group for some time, so this worked out perfectly. Any...
View ArticleMocking Zend Framework’s Row and Rowset objects
If you separate your business logic from your data access logic, the last thing you want to do is make your business logic unit tests reliant on the database. This is normally not a big deal: retrieve...
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PHP goes functional in version 5.3
It has been said that all languages, over time, implement a dialect of lisp. PHP appears to be no exception. In PHP 5.3 lambda (or anonymous) functions and closures were added to the language. These...
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Using Absolute URL’s In The View
We recently had a project at work that involved replacing all the relative URL's from the application with absolute URL's. In the past, developers had just hard-coded an absolute URL only when they...
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