Ecommerce developers with Magento

This tutorial will describe how to create own Controller Plugin.
How to set up environment for zend framework controller plugin.
How extend the library with own class and finally how to use it.

I was playing around with admin interface for one custom project and I wanted general notification system for updating, adding, deleting records in database or any other action I could imagine. Zend framework has built in notification system where you can easily call the following helper (it’s an controller action helper). I hope this code will help somebody.

ZendFrameworkQuickstart application is demo guestbook with Zend library files included,
basic folder structure and some sample data for fetching and entering new.
It is already configured for usage and always updated with the latest release of Zend Framework.

I’ve created a sample project for those of you interested in working with Doctrine ORM and Zend Framework (my favorite toys in last few weeks). All you need to get it up n running is a download of Doctrine ORM and Zend Framework.

You would like to have a eCommerce power of Magento, but also have a blog to empower your business? In this case, you probably know that Magento doesn’t have some article manager in the box. Many clients seek for supplementary solution like WordPress to accomplish this goal. Ok, so you created a blog on same or different domain and you would like those articles to appear somewhere in Magento (probably sidebar). This article will explain how to do it.

Zend Framework comes with interesting and useful components when it comes to authentication and authorization of users. Zend_Auth is one such component whose task is to handle authentication.

I made a little screencast on topic of Zend_Auth database table authentication. Screencast is video only, plus some visual pointers, no audio. Hope some of you find it useful as starting point.

For all those in open source web application development, like myself, LAMP/WAMP is well known term, especially if your development is based on PHP. Imagine WAMP with commercial support available and you what to you get? You get Zend Core. I don’t mean to be harsh neither to WAMP or Zend Core with statements like these. I’m simply trying to explain as short as possible, to those interested in Zend Core what it actually is.

I love Zend Framework. Sometimes it can really be overhead but most of the time it’s really nice working in well organized, documented framework. One of the components I use relatively often iz Zend_Auth component. Zend Framework documentation is quite rich so I wont get into explaining how to use Zend_Auth. There is one thing that bothered me in Zend_Auth, and that’s persistent storage. Zend_Auth (in the latest version 1.7.6, as of time of this writing) supports only Session state as it’s storage. What I needed is full database session storage.

I was playing with SOAP for the last few days. I must say, it looks somewhat complicated in some areas. After some google-ing on SOAP vs REST stuff I decided to write this simple ZendFramework REST how to. Actualy this is a PHP part of tutorial since I was working on a PHP and C# solution using Mono framework for C# part can be found on my site. My desire was to create a web service in PHP environment and consume that service in C# environment.Getting started with REST using ZendFramework. Here’s the PHP REST server part.

Basic example is really, really simple. Aren’t they always. Seriously, it’s not my intention to go into outermost details.

For the last 3 months, all of my Web development has been done in NetBeans 6.5. I got hooked on it ever since the beta version brought PHP support to it. NetBeans has several great advantages and even greater features to shadow out most of the commercial, freeware, or open source IDE solutions.

One of the best things about NetBeans is a excellent support for HTML code and added support for jQuery, Prototype, and general JavaScript. However, one thing I simply hate about NetBeans is its speed. Since most of my development is in Magento and WordPress platforms (and Magento itself comes with more than 7000 files), this can really slow down NetBeans. So I decided to look for another solutions, if any Today I decided to download and try out the latest Zend Studio release, Zend Studio for Eclipse Professional Edition.