Zend Framework gets hostname routing
There were many needs for it, in different mailing lists, forums and blogs, but it was never officially requested. There were also many approaches to... more »
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We ain't got no RSpec - Best Voicemail Ever
'Funny' Rails Envy Podcast Voicemail remix. In case you need a good laugh today listen to the remix, though the orginal voicemail it making some valid... more »
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Six valuable Phing build file refactorings
Some weeks months ago I finally got my hands on the ThoughtWorks Anthology and got immediately hooked on one of the featured essays called... more »
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Ideas for testing Zend Framework apps
Jani Hartikainen provides are some ideas he was thinking of for making testing Zend Framework (and Doctrine) based apps nice and easy.
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Testing Zend Framework MVC Applications
Since Matthew originally started hacking on the Zend Framework MVC in the fall of 2006, he has been touting the fact that you can test ZF MVC projects... more »
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Dependency Injection, or how to make simple concepts sound difficult
You may have heard of Dependency Injection. It’s essentially a way to remove implementation dependencies from classes, or “the process of supplying an... more »
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PHP Has No Culture of Testing
Charles Nutter, a Sun engineer who has worked on the JRuby project, commented on PHP in a panel discussion at Sun's CommunityOne conference. I will... more »
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PHP Unit Database fixtures “the ruby way”
More or less everybody who does test driven development comes to the point where one realizes that the preparation of the database before each test is... more »
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View Helpers in Zend Framework
Views in MVC are allowed to communicate with the Model (using read-only operations), and are allowed to perform display-related logic. That said, how... more »
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Hooking a Growl publisher plugin into Xinc
This week I finally had the time to setup Xinc, PHP's shiny new Continuous Integration(CI) server, on my MacBook and started to fiddle with it's... more »
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Getting an overview of all targets accumulated in a Phing build file
Looking for an equivalent to Ant's -p(rojecthelp) command-line option in Phing, I dug up that you can use Phing's -l(ist) option to get a quick... more »
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Sniffing refactoring needs
While still messing around with the PHP_CodeSniffer Pear package, I took a somehow jealous 1000 feet look at some prominent code inspection tools of... more »
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Using TextMate with PHP_CodeSniffer
Scott Kim spent some time on developing a TextMate command for the PHP_CodeSniffer PEAR package.Check out it's blog post for more details and to get... more »
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Creating Zend Framework snippets for TextMate
After finally converting to Mac OS X, I really couldn't resist to fall for the famous TextMate editor. The editor comes with a nice PHP bundle... more »
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Designing Klingon Warships Using Behaviour Driven Development
In this article, Pádraic Brady introduces a TDD related practice called Behaviour-Driven Development which has been gathering attention for over a... more »
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Quick introduction to using Zend_Layout
Lately, the Zend_Layout component has been a very popular topic on #zftalk. It is indeed a very useful component, but a lot of people are having... more »
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Simple Zend_Layout Example
As Zend_Layout is in the trunk now, Rob Allen provides a super simple MVC example that shows it in action.
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Zend Framework in Action Pre-review
For the last few days I've been reading the MEAP release of Zend Framework in Action from Rob Allen and Nick Lo published by Manning Publications and... more »
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PHPSpec Reporting Gets A Needed Boost
PHPSpec is closing in on its first stable release, so the time had finally come to spruce up its output! No more the simple reporting of failed specs... more »
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Adding some BDD flavour to the PHPUnit framework
Influenced by an article written by David Astel and the latest 'interest resurrecting' blog entries of Pádraic Brady, I was looking for a way to bend... more »
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Better PHPUnit Group Annotations
Last week, Sebastian Bergmann wrote about the new support for TestNG-style grouping of tests in the upcoming PHPUnit 3.2. This feature allows... more »
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PHPUnit Database Extension (DBUnit Port)
Mike Lively has completed the initial feature set for the Database extension to PHPUnit. This is a essentially a port of DBUnit to PHP. For those that... more »
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Xinc 1.0 Released
Version 1.0 of Xinc is finally there!
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Setting up Zend Framework applications with Phing
After spending too much time on directory and view script shifting to align an 'older' Zend Framework application to the very useful ViewRenderer... more »
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Copy & Paste Detection in PHPUnit 3.2
Version 3.2 of PHPUnit is shaping up nicely. In this blog posting I want to highlight another aspect of PHPUnit's new Project Mess Detector feature... more »
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