Tag Archives: mvc

Dispatching HTTP requests manually in Zend Framework

I recently developed a custom Zend Framework view helper and I needed to find a way to get pieces of rendered HTML out of an action controller. You could to this in a simple way by performing a full HTTP call via cURL. That’s not the best way to get it done, so I started …

February 20, 2011 – 11:28 am | By Thijs | Posted in PHP, Zend Framework | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

My custom Zend Framework ESI view helper

I’ve been a fan of Zend Framework for some time now and I’ve recently become quite a fan of Varnish. As you all know, Varnish is an extremely powerful reverse caching proxy (although the Varnish people prefer the term HTTP accelerator). Varnish supports a subset of the ESI language and I’ve written a custom Zend …

February 19, 2011 – 8:20 pm | By Thijs | Posted in PHP, Varnish, Zend Framework | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Microsoft Webcafe 2 in retrospect

Yesterday Microsoft hosted the second edition of Microsoft Webcafe. The event was held at Combell and we made our conference room available as well as our bar. The event aims to gather developers in an informal way. The webcafe concept is quite simple: a couple of short talks with a 10 minute timeslot each followed …

February 18, 2011 – 5:39 pm | By Thijs | Posted in Conferences | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Converting your Zend Framework MVC application into an XML webservice using one single plugin

That’s right folks, in this blog post I’ll show you how you can convert your entire MVC application into a REST-style XML webservice. And I’m not talking about refactoring tons of code … NO, we’ll plug this option in without changing a single thing to your action controllers. This post will contain a detailed description …

May 22, 2009 – 7:33 pm | By Thijs | Posted in IT, PHP, Zend Framework | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Zend Framework as a glue framework part 1: the router

For some time now there have been lots of discussions regarding the use of frameworks. Some say it causes too much overhead, is a deal breaker from a performance point of view and forces you to adapt your project to the standards of the framework. Others defend the DRY (Do Not Repeat Yourself) principles and …

January 11, 2009 – 11:50 pm | By Thijs | Posted in PHP, Zend Framework | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (3)