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I’ll introduce this topic with a warning – This article doesn’t show you how to completely reorder your entire Navigation, it does however show you how you could populate a new container from an existing one and reorder it. Zend Navigation currently doesn’t allow you to nominate a default Navigation Container class. So while we [...]

Part 3: Implementing jsTree which uses jQuery (optional javascript expand/collapse) This is a completely optional step in this series and really has nothing to do with Zend Framework because by this based on the client side we have all the HTML we need. What we’ll be doing is setting up jsTree a jQuery tree component [...]

Part 2: Rendering the sub menus (relevant to the active tab). This is where we employ another trick because the Zend_Navigation menu view helper does provide an option to render the active menu, but it is meant literally not the active branch of the menu like we’re trying to achieve. In the layout we need [...]

It is some what tricky with the Zend_Navigation menu helpers to set up your typical tab-based navigation with sub pages relevant to the tab your on, as seen below. But it’s not far difficult so don’t be put off, hopefully the view helpers will improve over time. In the mean time this is a 3 [...]

The most logical place to render your breadcrumb from is your master layout… However it’s unlikely you’ll ever want to render to on your home page right? I mean what is the point of seeing just “Home”. This can be simply achieved using a partial template to render your breadcrumb. The code below should explain [...]

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Over the years we all build up our own collections of tools which help us be more productive little soldiers. We realise a need for something to help us to achieve an end goal, or a lot of the time just ask ourselves “surely there is a faster and easier way of doing this”. The [...]

My problem was I wanted to update data in one table based on the data in another table. In this senario I had two identical tables in my MS Access database. Table1 is the original and Table2 has been imported from Excel. This MS Excel spread is an exported version of Table1 which was updated [...]

phpDocumentor (phpDoc) templates

Posted: 11th December 2008 by Grant Perry in PHP

Most professional PHP developers should be familiar with phpDocumentor, an “auto-documentation tool for the php language”. If you’re not please go check it out and start using it immediately! It has some great features, but that’s not in the scope of this post… Unfortunately most of the phpDocumentor templates leave much to be desired! However [...]

Wheres the Model in Zend Frameworks MVC?

Posted: 5th December 2008 by Grant Perry in Zend Framework
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Don’t get me wrong ZF is my PHP framework of choice however it’s really lacking the Model concept from the MVC design pattern! The Model is where you should be implementing your business logic, data validation for example… Zend Framework implements interfaces for filtering and validation on it’s Form components. The framework however lacks these interfaces on other [...]