When working on different database with Zend, you may load defined parameters from your local configuration files depending on the action you need to trigger. In the case you need to load a database which is defined by a specific environment for instance from a session data, you need to update your configuration inside your […]

When you are working on a large project like a CMS system, you provide different kind of modules and you allow the end user to enable or disable certain modules depending on his needs. There are different way of achieving this : You create the whole database with all tables in it, giving the possibility […]

Let’s say we need to create a database on the fly and use it within our Zend 3 project. Typically you will create the database then store the credentials within your global or local php config file in your autoload directory. But this time we do need to create a second database which name depends […]

If you have been following the tutorial on ZF3 authentication, you already have the user email stored in session as this is the default behavior of the Zend/Authentication module provided by Zend platform. The Zend authentication module & session management We will overview a little how is handled the session system within the authentication module […]

When adding a new module manually in Zend 3 platform, you basically add files within a defined folder structure of your own (you can just copy a skeleton application and rename the directory). See the tutorial on Zend 3 project for more details. Once you have added the files you will generally meet a few […]

As a way to help others and myself, I will continue to post Zend3 typical errors and their fix regularly. To reproduce the following error : “Class is not a valid entity or mapped super class” using ZF3 and Doctrine 2″ I’ve used the Yaml driver as described in this page, then switched back to […]

Some applications need to integrate data and using Zend and Doctrine all together requires us to do it properly. Of course you could simply insert your entries inside the database using the Mysql command line which is pretty straight forward but how about the case you need to automate the process with a different database, […]

It’s been some time I planed on talking about Yaml and more precisely about its use for Mysql configuration tables and Entity generation. So today we will overview Yaml for Mysql automatic table integration using Doctrine and Zend 3. If you have never heard about Yaml, well you are better late than never ! What […]

Getting stuck while coding and testing right away happens to any programmers, sometimes looking at the logs is not enough to fix things quickly, that’s when using a debugger becomes really helpful. We are going to integrate XDebug inside our NetBeans configuration so we can debug Php 7 projects. Following is the configuration I will […]

For those who have never heard about NetBeans, no worries, you’ve just missed a powerful tool to work with, depending on the language(s) you employ the most, choosing between IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) might not be easy and once you get used to one in particular then why switching ? There are so many comparison […]

Today we are going to implement a sign up form within our authentication module we’ve set up before. Note that we don’t want to be in competition with Zf Commons with their registration and login module, this article is more like a tutorial to train you on using Zend and handling a form. In later […]

In this article, we will build a simple authentication module with a login form and a small administrative interface. Basically we will work on the userdemo module detailed on GitHub at this url : User Demo Starting from this code we will add a few tweaks to go further with Zend integration, so if you […]

Let’s get started with the installation of Zend 3.0 along with Php 7 on a debian server (the same steps will be valid for Ubuntu). When you follow the following page : https://framework.zend.com/downloads it will likely need a few more easy steps to achieve as root user, here is what I did to get it fine […]

Generally submenus are being added under menu items and are not separated from the navigation menu or a customized menu. But if you need to display submenu items at a different spot, that is a different approach and we need to get ourselves into coding. We’ve already dealt with the main function handling menus : […]

We already reviewed a nice technique to manipulate the menus in WordPress, let’s overview how to deal with the search form provided by WordPress. By default here is the form rendered in html : <form id=”searchform” class=”searchform” action=”/” method=”get”> <div><label class=”screen-reader-text” for=”s”>Search for :</label> <input id=”s” name=”s” type=”text” value=”” /> <input id=”searchsubmit” type=”submit” value=”Search” /></div> […]