(I know I’m due the last part on Models in the Zend Framework. I’m getting there, it’s a pretty long rant so it’ll be here eventually)
Continuing with (PHP) development best good practices: Continue reading The Advancing PHP Developer Part 2: Object Orientation
A question that I hear often is how can one evolve as a PHP developer? The answer varies and depends on the person’s programming knowledge and experience. I will cover the topics I think are the most important briefly in this series, provide links and maybe expand on them in the future.
Continue reading The Advancing PHP Developer Part 1: Coding Standards
Apparently PHP has a lot of functions starting with the letter A, and people find it offensive (Read a pro-PHP response to that article here).
Continuing with this series, we’ll get right to business.
Filtering and validation are the basics of dealing with user input in the web. We filter data before passing it to the database to prevent attacks (such as SQL Injections) and we validate user input to make sure it is what we expect it to be (hence, valid).
I will be using the Zend_Filter and Zend_Validate components to deal with those two tasks, and combine their usage via the Zend_Filter_Input component. Zend_Filter and Zend_Validate are self explanatory, however I will cover Zend_Filter_Input in brief.
The breaking news are that Zend has fired 25% employees R&D department (Updated, thanks David for pointing that out), possibly in preparation for acquisition my a major player. Zend employees are major contributers in the PHP open-source project, so this has tangible ramification for all of us PHP developers out there.
Continue reading Zend Lay-offs, Prepare for acquisition