ditched the Zend Framework

I’ve ditched the Zend Framework on a project. In it’s place, Symfony has allowed me to recreate all the work with the Zend Framework over several months in a matter of 4 hours.

The Zend Framework proved to be:

too piecemeal incomplete – arguably this is represented by the version number; but this . . . → Read More: ditched the Zend Framework

Zend Framework and PDO_MYSQL

I’ve been working with the Zend Framework a bit and in working with MySQL through PDO_MYSQL. I’ve run into a few problems trying to use parameters of queries.

I’ve narrowed the issue down to PDO itself and not the Zend Framework.

$dbh = new PDO(“mysql:host=localhost;dbname=db”,”user”,”pw”); $query = “insert into silo_test_data (record_id, fieldname, value) . . . → Read More: Zend Framework and PDO_MYSQL

Getting Closer to the Zend Framework

I’ve subscribed to the mailing list for the new Zend Framework. It’s been quite enlightening to be thrown into a community of the highest-caliber PHP developers (aside from my team of course).

I look forward to contributing more and more to the discussion and ultimately contribute patches and code going forward.

For example, in . . . → Read More: Getting Closer to the Zend Framework

Zend Framework 0.1.1 Released

I’ve been looking at the just released Zend Framework for PHP this evening. I’d been following its development since last year and was anxiously awaiting its arrival. I think this framework provides some good tools that PHP lacks; people who’ve built several web applications find themselves reinventing pieces of the wheel each time. Specifically, . . . → Read More: Zend Framework 0.1.1 Released