Archive for January, 2008

Zend Framework: Using View Helpers to Build Rich, Scalable, Controls

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Using View Helpers to Build Rich, Scalable, Controls
by: Jon Lebensold

Whether you’re developing an ASP.NET application, working with rails or dealing with a templating engine like Smarty, the idea of partial templates is not foreign. Partial templates allow developers and designers to work with panels or sub-groupings of content that need to be dynamic.

With a proper AJAX framework in place, these controls can be written in a way that they can be updated in whichever Controller they eventually reside. This kind of flexibility can allow you the flexibility of using certain signature controls for multiple parts of an application.

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Posted in Advanced PHP, Zend-Framework | 6 Comments »

Ajax Video Tutorials – Free!

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Hi,

I just wanted to announce that I am now giving away a series of video lectures on Ajax – about 3 hrs worth.

The Videos:

Ajax Videos

These videos are not designed to be a tutorial, but rather, they are a lecture. None the less, the videos can help give you at least a basic understanding of what Ajax is all about.

Anyway, they are free, so what do you have to loose!

;)

If you guys want a proper killersites style (simple, practical and to the point) video tutorial, please let me know.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com

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Zend Framework Components Part 2: Zend_View

Monday, January 14th, 2008

By: Jon Lebensold

zend framework logo

As part of a series of articles about the Zend Framework and MVC, I’d like to take some time and cover Zend_View (the ‘V’ in that MVC triad).

Within the Zend Framework architecture and documentation, Zend_View is often coupled with the Zend_Controller as a means of providing a templating engine that encourages smart defaults over explicit programming.

For example, if I have a Controller named ‘AccountsController’ with an action (AKA a method that ends in ‘Action’ inside the AccountsController) called “new”, this would be mapped to the url “mydomain.com/Accounts/new”.

After running whatever is found inside AccountsConroller::newAction(), the Zend_Controller would be clever enough to dig out of my application/views/scripts folder, the Accounts/new.phtml file as a template for the action in question.

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Posted in Zend-Framework | 8 Comments »

Wordpress Videos

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

I just got back from a trip to Thailand, so I should be back creating new videos and articles on PHP. In the meantime, I have a few Wordpress videos that might interest some of you.

About the videos:

I cover just the basics in the videos I have up now, but I am working on new videos that will teach you how to create Wordpress themes from scratch.

How does this relate to PHP?

… Though not required, PHP knowledge can help when creating themes for Wordpress. This leads me to why I posted this on Killerphp.com: part of the reason I created killerphp.com is because Wordpress is written in PHP. Wordpress is a good example of object oriented PHP and is a great piece of software that can be used as the foundation for other projects – Wordpress platform?


From my killersites.com blog:

I decided to create a dedicated Wordpress section on killersites.com

Right now, I only a have a few videos (with a bunch more coming) but I am also thinking of maybe some written tutorials etc…

The videos:

wordpress-logo

So far I’ve only added a few videos but have another 40 minutes of video to edit that should be up this week.

Any comments or suggest are welcome.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com

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