Category: Zend Framework

  • Zend Framework becomes Laminas project

    Today it was announced that Zend Framework is being rebranded as the Laminas project. (drawn from the meaning “a thin layer”) Along with the rebrand came some other important changes as well. Yes, this includes Expressive and Apigility, so continue reading. Some History Zend Framework is one of the largest and oldest PHP frameworks and […]

  • Easy Docker dev environments for PHP with CloudEstuary

    Lately I’ve been messing around with Docker, and specifically with containerizing PHP applications to perform quick services, such as static analysis of PHP code, compatibility of existing PHP code to specific versions of PHP, and performing security checks on PHP libraries included in my projects. However, I’ve not created a development environment for my projects […]

  • Zend Framework 2 XML Sitemap

    While tweaking the SunshinePHP site to be a bit more SEO friendly I realized we had neglected to create a sitemap for search engines to find.  I was pleasantly surprised to see the Navigation component of Zend Framework 2 includes a bunch of view helpers, including a Sitemap helper.  So now I have an xml […]

  • Developer advice

    As the organizer of the SoFloPHP User Group I am often approached by entry to mid-level developers asking what they can do to advance in their career or become better developers.  Of course I am nowhere near perfect but have been around long enough to get a few bumps and bruises along the way, so […]

  • Using JOIN within the Zend Framework

    I found documentation very sparse on the subject of using JOIN with the Zend Framework. So i set out on a quest of many hours figuring out how to get it to work. Here is what I ended up with. I do not claim that this is the best way to do it, or that […]