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16Dec
2009

Zend_Date time part and GMT

If you live in the UK you might have a surprise waiting in store for you if you use Zend_Date for the time part only. For a while I even thought this was a bug, however digging deeper has shown that actually it’s Zend_Date that is right, in a way at least.

When setting a time before 1972 - this is 1970 and 1971 the time part will not be shifted in the UK locale as DST was only introduced in 1972!

This means if you are only calculating times and need the appropriate time adjustment you will need to set a date as no date part in Zend_Date means 1st Jan 1970.

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 09:06pm
30Jul
2009

Autloading modular forms & models in Zend Framework 1.8

It’s not really obvious with the error messages you get, but using a thing like Form_Login does not work out of the box with a modular structure. Which is slightly surprising considering that it’s inside the default module.

I have found examples like the second one below, but no one mentions that you actually declare the default namespace too for everything to work.

$autoloader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(array(
	'namespace' => '',
	'basePath'  => APPLICATION_PATH .'/modules/default',
	'resourceTypes' => array (
		'form' => array(
		'path' => 'forms',
		'namespace' => 'Form',
    ),
	'model' => array(
		'path' => 'models',
		'namespace' => 'Model',
    	),
    )
));

$autoloader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(array(
	'namespace' => 'Admin_',
	'basePath'  => APPLICATION_PATH .'/modules/admin',
	'resourceTypes' => array (
		'form' => array(
		'path' => 'forms',
		'namespace' => 'Form',
    ),
	'model' => array(
		'path' => 'models',
		'namespace' => 'Model',
    	),
    )
));

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 09:55pm
29Jul
2009

Redirect in controller plugin - Zend Framework 1.8

If you need to redirect while inside a controller plugin, for example in preDispatch() here is a quick way to do it:

$redirector = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('redirector');
$redirector->gotoUrl('/login/');

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 09:53pm
22Apr
2009

Zend_Db_Select multiple table joins explained

It sounds like a simple task - retrieve the result from a join SQL query. Unusually you can even find documentation on the official Zend Framework site explaining how to put together a query that will return the results from a JOIN query. Unfortunately when it actually comes to putting theory into practice any Zend newcomer can run into several problems. (more…)

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 10:52pm
17Feb
2009

Zend Framework Decorators - Labels and Checkboxes

Very often it is the smallest things that annoy us the most. It took me a while to figure out why the placement parameter was not changing anything. I started of with the following:

'decorators' => array(
	array('Label'),
	array('ViewHelper')
)

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 11:16am
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