Category Archives: Zend Framework

TDD with Zend Framework – wrapping up the controller

Part 1 – Getting Started Part 2 – Testing Controllers Part 3 – Mocks and Stubs Part 4 – Wrapping up the controller The last part of this series dealt with mocking and stubbing the controller action dependencies to get … Continue reading

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TDD with Zend Framework – mocks and stubs

Part 1 – Getting Started Part 2 – Testing Controllers Part 3 – Mocks and Stubs Part 4 – Wrapping up the controller In the last part we tested for the form elements on the home page to meet the … Continue reading

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Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development – book review

I’ve just finished going through Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development, a new book by Keith Pope. Published by Packt Publishing this book which somehow manages to cater to the ZF beginner as well as the veteran developers is a … Continue reading

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TDD with Zend Framework – testing controllers

Part 1 – Getting Started Part 2 – Testing Controllers Part 3 – Mocks and Stubs Part 4 – Wrapping up the controller In the first part of this series we set up our Zend Framework application and specified our … Continue reading

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TDD with Zend Framework

Part 1 – Getting Started Part 2 – Testing Controllers Part 3 – Mocks and Stubs Part 4 – Wrapping up the controller Jani Hartikainen has an interesting unit testing series on his blog where he introduces and expands on … Continue reading

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Restful Controllers with Zend Framework

I just read Bradley Holt’s post on using HTML 5 forms with REST and HTTP methods and he mentioned the REST router in the recently released version 1.9 of the Zend Framework. The good news is we don’t have to … Continue reading

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Zend_Db_Table update in ZF1.9

I usually have a bunch of empty Db_Table classes in my Zend Framework apps which just exist to define table names and do the inherited CRUD stuff. However, with the just released version 1.9 of the framework (currently in beta), … Continue reading

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Zend_Db_Table dynamic finders

The recently added Zend_Navigation component uses dynamic finders to find pages e.g. findOneByLabel(‘Home’) to return the first matching page with label Home (and that’s straight from the manual). It would be nice if Zend_Db_Table could do this too but it … Continue reading

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