Update Twitter Bootstrap to release 3 in Zend Framework 2

 Posted on August 10, 2013  |  3 minutes  |  577 words  |  Valerio Galano

Recently I started a new project based on Zend Framework 2, using Twitter Bootstrap as CSS framework. Some days ago, new Bootstrap v3 was released and introduced a lot of changes and improvements. Because of ZF2 Skeleton Application comes out-of-box with Twitter Bootstap 2, I decided to setup the new project skeleton and update CSS framework to latest available release. In this post, I’ll describe the process to update Bootstrap to v3 into a ZF2 project. [Read More]
PHP  Zend Framework 2 

Configurare filtri Doctrine 2 in Zend Framework 2

 Posted on May 27, 2013  |  4 minutes  |  657 words  |  Valerio Galano

Scenario Un filtro di Doctrine è uno strumento molto potente che può essere utilizzato per aggiungere condizioni a livello SQL all’interno del nostro gestore di oggetti Doctrine 2. Ciò significa che i filtri influenzeranno il comportamento di query DQL, collezioni, recupero dati, ecc. Come configurare ed utilizzare filtri in condizioni generali è ben spiegato in questo questo articolo della documentazione officiale di Doctrine, ma in un progetto basato su Zend Framework 2, la stessa operazione è un po’ diversa. [Read More]
PHP  Zend Framework 2 

Setup Doctrine 2 filters in Zend Framework 2

 Posted on May 27, 2013  |  4 minutes  |  641 words  |  Valerio Galano

Scenario Doctrine filter is a very powerfull tool that can be used to add conditional clauses at SQL level into our Doctrine 2 engine. This means that filters constraints will affect DQL queries, collections, lazy loading, etc. How to setup and use filters in generic conditions is well explained in this article of official Doctrine documentation, but in a Zend Framework 2 project, the same operation is a bit different. [Read More]
PHP  Zend Framework 2 

ReCaptcha in Zend Framework 2 without Zend/Form

 Posted on March 15, 2013  |  5 minutes  |  875 words  |  Valerio Galano

The problem Captcha is a very useful mechanism to avoid automated abuse of your sites and applications. In particular,reCAPTCHA is a Google powered service that offers a free and simple way to implement a captcha protection field in your forms or pages. Zend Framework 2 implements his own components to handle captcha and a specific one to handle reCAPTCHA service. At the moment, the ZF2 documentation is very usefull if you want to integrate a reCAPTCHA in your Zend/Form component, but lacks in describing how to use reCAPTCHA service component alone. [Read More]
PHP  Zend Framework 2 

Working with DateTime in Doctrine 2 and Zend Framework 2

 Posted on March 12, 2013  |  3 minutes  |  624 words  |  Valerio Galano

The problem Storing datetimes can be a issue if servers and users of your application are distributed around the World and use different time zones. Each user want to work on datetimes in his specific time zone, servers automatically stores values in their time zone, etc. Storing data without operating right conversion will cause strange behaviours. The solution The solution is very simple: store all datetimes in UTC time zone and show to each user in his proper time zone. [Read More]
PHP  Zend Framework 2