The third part of the tutorial series will present you with a fully functionable solution for a login and signup page that activates a RECaptcha, via Zend_Captcha as a Service, when the user attempts to login/signup 3 times and fails. The tutorial will also show you how to use your models and how to structure your bussiness logic inside your module based application.

Continuing with the tutorial series, we will see how to debug the application. Debugging include easy to use methods of printing data on the screen, including ZFDebug Toolbar in order to manage all errors and queries, using the logger to log messages to Firebug, using a simple debug function that will place debug messages in your ZFDebug Toolbar, in a special Debug panel [...]

These are a series of tutorials which are meant to show you or guide you through developing a complex application with Zend Framework 1.10.

The following tutorial will show you how you can improve your overall security in your PHP application (the tutorial is based on Zend Framework 1.10 and on the use of Zend_Auth but you can easily adapt it to something for your own needs). You will learn how to extend the Zend_Auth class into a highly customizable & secure Project Authentication class

This article will show you how to write / use your own Zend Cache Backend Adapter along side provide you with the Class that will allow you to store your cached data, objects and even full html pages inside a MySql database. You can read about how the class can be used, how it works (theory of operation) or you can just download it from the end of the article.

In this post, I will show you why it is important to use Unit Testing, how to use it and how to avoid writing the same code 2 times. Also, i will show you how to do a basic Test Driven Development with SimpleTest and Zend Framework 1.10. Also, this tutorial will show you how to directly link your tests to the code of your application, without duplicating content. At the end, you will be able to extend the tests to run on any code you write.

I always thought about that button that says “Load more…” because, the user needs to wait when he pressed it. So i thought, since the user cannot jump 9 pages forward, why not preload the next page? So when the user clicks load more, the application would instantly display the next page content, and while the user browses through it, the application loads the next page and so on.

A detailed tutorial will show you how to integrate Zend Framework version 1.9.6 with jQuery Uploadify version 2.1.0. The tutorial covers all the basic aspects of the process from installing the framework on a multi zend applications with the same library/separate configurations system to integrating the jQuery Uploadify into your website. The uploads will be made in a secure folder, outside the public area of your server from where you can manipulate the files as you wish.

A tutorial for begginers with MySQL that will teach you how to setup a simple Master-Server replication in an UNIX environment.The tutorial will guide you through the process of setting up the replication settings on the master server, configure a user with replication privileges and then setting up the slave settings. At the end, once data is inserted into the master sql server, it will be available in real time on the slave server.

Every web developer should know these tips or at least take them into consideration before starting their next project. The list contains various tips that range from server configuration to application logic. Including all tips into your project might result into a bigger server load but will drastically improve your users experience (since your site will be lighting fast!). Also, don’t forget, search engines LOVE speed and its more eco friendly if your site loads faster. So why not use these?