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Zend components in WordPress (or any other CMS)

27th FEB 2009 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Wordpress, Zend

If you are involved in active web application development, then chances are you have heard about both WordPress and Zend Framework. Learning Zend Framework can be tedious and time consuming task (but it sure pays of, this goes for all other PHP frameworks out there). Anyhow, lot of our projects use WordPress. Not because we love it so much, but because our clients love it. Since we do ecommerce development, our prime tool when it comes to online stores is… MAGENTO. Magento, on the other hand comes with Zend Framework implemented. So, if you are working on a site that uses both Magento and WordPress then it seems logical to try and use Zend Framework components (classes) inside your WordPress templates (in case you are working on something more than just styling the WordPress). Read more

Getting started with REST using Zend Framework

10th JAN 2009 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Zend

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. Read more

Review of Zend Studio for Eclipse Professional Edition 6.1

31st DEC 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Tools & Frameworks, Zend

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.
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