Avoiding common pitfalls with Zend_Test

Sometimes I think I’m particularly stupid when it comes to learning new things. Well, that, or maybe I’m just the only one complaining enough. ;-) I feel like I’ve wasted a great deal of time last week with basics that were nowhere to be found or required debugging to no end. The following is the outcome, a rather random list of things to watch out for when you’re starting on Zend_Test....

March 28, 2009 · 4 min

Managing software deployments of your PHP applications I

Disclaimer: I’ve been doing mostly PHP and Zend Framework based projects in the past two years, but the information from this article is general and should be applicable to most setups — even to non PHP-based projects (to a certain extent). Inspired by Padraic’s posting spree the other week, here’s another attempt to provide you with some hands-on usefulness. I’m all open for all feedback, and sorry for the length!...

January 31, 2009 · 2 min

ZendFramework version requirements

As some people noticed, with the release of ZendFramework 1.7, the version requirement was bumped up from 5.1.6 to 5.2.4. If you really care which ancient version of PHP you should install (vs. 5.2.6, 5.2.7 or 5.2.8 next week ;-)) – here is a breakdown per component: Zend_Acl: 5.0.0 Zend_Amf: 5.0.0 Zend_Auth: 5.0.0 Zend_Cache: 5.0.0 Zend_Captcha: 5.1.0 Zend_Config: 5.0.0 Zend_Console: 5.0.0 Zend_Controller: 5.0.0 Zend_Currency: 5.0.0 Zend_Date: 5.1.0 Zend_Db: 5.1.0 Zend_Debug: 5....

December 8, 2008 · 1 min