ZF3 Status Update Hangout #1 – Wrap Up

The first Hangout from the Roave team is done and the guys have given some great insight into the thoughts behind Zend Framework 3 (ZF3). In case you missed the talk – or if you just want to get a quick overview about what has been talked about – you’re at the right place. I am going to wrap up the whole talk and try to sum it up in a few lines what the keynotes have been.
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Understanding Zend Framework 3 … before it’s out!

Hey guys! Everyone knows how important it is to understand the concepts of a framework to truly use it at it’s best. With Zend Framework 2 (ZF2) a lot of people coming from Zend Framework 1 (ZF1) were shocked at first. So many new concepts, so many new buzzwords and more importantly what’s the need behind all those. ZF2 was a big step forward and by now a lot of people have gotten accustomed to the way ZF2 works and why it does so.

While ZF2 is a great Framework there are still a couple of things that are just not ideal. A little example would be that a lot of people use $this->getServiceLocator() inside their Controllers. While this is OK, it’s actually considered bad practice. The way things are looking right now, this feature will be removed in Zend Framework 3 (ZF3) to basically force people to use proper dependency injection using the ServiceManager.

And that’s what this post is all about actually. ZF3 is not close around the corner. It’s still many, many months ahead. But there are reasons why you should bother and get information about ZF3 as soon as possible. If you understand why changes are introduced – and most of them are explained, some will be explained at a later point i guess – then you can spot errors in todays code already! You can improve your current code by knowing what’s going to be “in” a couple of months away.

Zend Framework 3 on Google Moderator

One way to follow the development is to keep track of the discussions for Zend Framework 3 Ideas on Google Moderator. Not only will you be able to keep track and understand coming changes, you can actually do something against it! Does something sound just not right to you? Counter-Argument and downvote! ZF3 as much as ZF2 is a Community-Project and if the absolute majority of the community is against a change, chances are quite high that a change won’t happen.

ZF3 Tagged Issues on GitHub + Wiki

Probably the most technical information you can get is available right inside the ZF2-Repository over at GitHub. All Issues / PRs with the Tag ZF3 are about the very topic of introducing or debate about changes happening within the development of Zend Framework 3. This would be the ideal place for you to get involved with the actual ZF3-Development.

Aside from the issues on GitHub, there’s also a Wiki-Entry which lists a lot of the changes in a little more comprehensive format. More specifically, it lists up all the bc-breaks that are happening, so wisely read those! Thanks to Bakura for pointing that out.

Google Hangouts for Zend Framework 3

This actually is the core of this Blogpost. Just today i learned about a great Project that some of the great minds behind Zend Framework started. Marco <Ocramius> Pivetta, Evan <EvanDotPro> Coury and Ben <DaspriD> Scholzen will be holding a regular series of Live-Videos / Hangouts where the will be talking about the current status of development of ZF3. They will be highlighting some of the core changes and give reasons for why they are doing so. In addition to that you will be able to ask live-questions via chat at #zftalk.dev @freenode.net

I can only suggest to you guys to follow at least those hangouts. This will be roughly an hour worth of your time to understand Zend Framework 3 before it’s even out!

Follow the Hangouts here: Zend Framework 3 Status Hangouts. The first one will be held at November 6th at 15:00 UTC. Mark you calendars guys!

Understanding ZF2 Configuration

In Zend Framework 2 we no longer have the commanding application.ini, instead we got the option to configure our website or rather the modules on a per-module-basis. Furthermore, the modules are able to overwrite each others configuration. With this in mind, it makes it even more important to understand how ZF2 manages the configuration files of several modules internally. In this blog i will guide you guys through the internal process of the framework.
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Zend\Form\Element\Select and Database Values

One of the most common questions currently is how one is able to populate a Zend\Form\Element\Select with data from the database. In this blog I am going to demonstrate to you guys how you can achieve this using three different ways. First will be the very barebone way using Zend\Db\Adapter\AdapterInterface, another way will be using the Zend\Db\TableGateway\TableGatewayInterface and the third option to make this possible using a Doctrine\Common\Persistence\ObjectManager.
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ZfcUser, BjyAuthorize and Doctrine working together

Hey there, this will be the starting blog of my series for developing a full application. In this part i will cover one of the core features of basically every application there is: Authentication, Authorization and DB-Connectivity. Since with ZF2 the wheel doesn’t have to get re-invented over and over again, there already are great modules out there, that do the job. They may not be applicable 100% to even my current needs, but they can be extended. And that’s what we’ll be going to do at a later time. For now, all we’re going to do is make these modules work well together.
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Coming content for this blog

Everyone, I’m back! I wasn’t able to write a lot of post in those past three months due to personal reasons, but I’m back and I’ve brought some goodies. I have something nice planned for the coming months and I’m here to let you guys know. I have planned for teaching you guys a couple of basic stuff for ZF2-Projects, providing sources from a real application. Please read the full article if you’re interested in the detailled topics that will be posted within the next weeks.
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ZF2 Performance QuickTipp #2 – Classmap Autoloading

When it comes to any framework, the autoloading of classes is a huge concern. One of the first goals on ZF2s roadmap has been to get rid of all those require_once() statements inside the code to improve the overall performance. Taking a look at the ZendSkelettonApplication we can see inside Module.php, that the autoloading is done by several classes. The default approach most developers are using is with using Zend\Loader\StandardAutoloader. This is good and fine and serves it’s purpose, but if we take a closer look at the performance, a huge increase in speed can be achieved. In this blog i will tell you about the Zend\Loader\ClassMapAutoloader and what massive speed increase you can account with it.
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Zend Framework 2 Translate, I18n, Locale

Translanslation in ZF2 is handled pretty easily and one has several ways to do it. In this blog i will follow the ZendSkeletonApplications approach by using translation files in *.mo-format. How do we create those files? How do we tell the application to use the files? What options do we have to set the locale to use? I will answer all these questions for you to internationalize your modules.
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