Andries Seutens - Modern Web Development

Dear reader,

A lot of you are waiting to finally get their hands on Zend_Form. Since my previous demo was such a success, I have decided to wrap up another demo application. This demo will show the usage of Zend_Form, and how to integrate a 2 step view in the Zend Framework (note that it doesn’t use Zend_Layout).

Zend_Form is currently only available in laboratory, so don’t expect everything to work yet. Instead, test, review, and provide comments on the proposal by Matthew Weier O’Phinney.

I have found that by using Zend_Form, you can reduce a lot code. Checkout, and download the demo:

http://zend-form.tjeu.be

I have written a small demo app for those of you looking for a quick start with Zend Framework.

You can view, and download the demo at:
http://andries.systray.be/zf-demos/feed-reader/

The download package contains:
- Zend Framework 1.0.0
- A conventional directory structure
- A bootstrap file
- An index controller (welcome page)
- An error controller (404, and other application errors)
- A feed controller, to read RSS feeds
- A default configuration file, with 2 stages (production, staging)

Feel free to use it

Update:

• Tested with Zend Framework 1.0.1
• Improved error controller now available
• Usage of $this->_request->isPost()
• Added default feeds to play with
• Improved inline documentation
• Removed usage of setNoViewRenderer()

Comments/feedback are more than welcome!

If you are looking for a quick way to get started with the Zend Framework, then you should download this file. This download has a default setup for the Zend Framework, including:

• A conventional directory structure
• A bootstrap file
• A configuration file with 2 stages: production, staging
• An error controller
• An index controller
• etc

The only thing you need to do (if you don’t have a shared version of the Zend Framework) is to download the framework, extract it, and put the library/Zend folder, into the same place in the downloadable file.

A quick and dirty test should tell you if it works: just open
http://localhost/<foldername>/document_root/

You should see “hooray application is running.” if everything went fine.

Update:

I have also made a modular starter package available. You can download it here.

More updates:
Naneau explains a modular setup in more details here.