Now that the Zend Framework ships with a command line tool, it’s even easier to get started programming with the Zend Framework. In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up the command line tool for use on Mac OS X.
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I just found this tutorial on Sending Emails with the Zend Framework. This tutorial couldn’t get any simpler, and explains the process of using Zend_Mail in plain English – much easier to read than the Zend documentation! It starts out simple, and gets advanced. Also includes lots of examples!
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.htaccess files are hidden in the finder window, which makes it difficult when you want to edit on of them (or make sure you have them!). Here’s a great tutorial to set up a way to view those files in the finder window: Quick Tip: Show/Hide Hidden Files.
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In case you’re looking for these, here are the sizes of the custom iPhone App icons:
Home screen icon: 57 x 57
Settings icon: 29 x 29
Loading image (size of window): 320 x 480
Tool bar, Nav bar icons: 20 x 20
Tab bar icons: 30 x 30
Want to learn more? iPhone Human Interface Guidelines: Creating Custom Icons and [...]
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In part four of this “How to get started using Zend_Test” series, we will finally get to start testing our controllers!
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Now that we’ve installed PEAR and PHPUnit, we can verify that PHPUnit is working correctly by writing our first test.
Since we installed PHPUnit through PEAR, and we have properly configured our include_path variable in our php.ini file, we can create our test files anywhere and PHP will know where to look to find PHPUnit. So [...]
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Question: How do I get started using Zend_Test? What is the process necessary to start using Zend_Test for testing my Zend Framework application?
Answer: Zend_Test extends PHPUnit. Therefore, we need to start by installing PHPUnit. The easiest way to install PHPUnit is by installing PEAR. If you’ve compled step one in this series, you’re all set! [...]
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Question: How do I get started using Zend_Test? What is the process necessary to start using Zend_Test for testing my Zend Framework application?
Answer: Zend_Test extends PHPUnit. Therefore, we need to start by installing PHPUnit. The easiest way to install PHPUnit is by installing PEAR. Therefore…you get the idea. We need PEAR. I’ll walk you through the process I took to install PEAR on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
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When working with WordPress, I can never remember which user roles have permission to do what, so I always have to look it up. Recently, I found this great video tutorial on WordPress User Roles. It really helped to solidify in my mind when to assign which role to which person. If you also have [...]
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Question: I have a website that I don’t want accessible to the general public. What is the best, most reliable and secure way to add password protection to my website (or section of my website) to make it secure?
Answer: there are a few different ways to add password protection to sites and pages: PHP, JavaScript, [...]
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