I have worked on a Zend Framework these past couple of days and needed the ability to display a users avatar. This is easy by using Automattic’s gravatar project. The easiest way to add a users avatar is to use a (this) view helper. Basically in your view you just pass the [...]

So a couple of days ago I posted a way to get the DB profiler working via your bootstrap but an easier way to get things working is via your configuration .ini file.
Once again you need Firefox, FireBug, and FirePHP. Then in your .ini file add the following lines;

resources.db.isdefaulttableadapter = true
resources.db.params.profiler.enabled = true
resources.db.params.profiler.class = [...]

When developing web applications I normally run into some SQL problems and want to see what the SQL code is doing on the backend. To do this one would normally just print the SQL statement to the screen during execution. However, if you use Zend Framework you are in luck. You can [...]

Just got down reading chapter 3 of the free Zend Framework book called “Surviving The Deep End.“  Chapter 3 was about models and was very informative.  Many developers have different views on what the model should do. I am in total agreement with this description of a model in the book.  I love the [...]