Zend Framework

Everything I’ve written on Zend Framework, newest first.

From the archive

Notes from my old blog on mohamedsharaf.net (2010–2018), rewritten and checked. Some are dated; the dates tell you how much.

Zend Framework · 30 October 2012
The order of events in a Zend Framework 2 request
Which events fire, in what order, from loading modules to sending the response.
Zend Framework · 29 October 2012
Zend Framework 2: return a response without a view or layout
Two ways to skip rendering in a ZF2 controller action: return the response, or render without the layout.
Zend Framework · 20 May 2012
A REST server in Zend Framework in three lines
How Zend Framework 1 exposed a PHP class as a REST service, and what to use today.
Zend Framework · 29 April 2012
Database transactions in Zend Framework
When a group of database changes must succeed or fail together, and how to write it in Zend Framework 1.
Zend Framework · 27 March 2012
The life of a request in Zend Framework 1
Where plugins and helpers run while Zend Framework 1 turns a URL into a response.
Zend Framework · 23 January 2012
Forcing HTTPS on login and checkout in Zend Framework
How we sent only sensitive pages over HTTPS in 2012, and why today the answer is simply “everywhere”.
Zend Framework · 12 April 2011
Layouts in Zend Framework 1: one template around every page
How Zend_Layout wrapped every page in a single shared template, and how to switch or turn it off.