Recently I started playing with Zend Framework 2 Form Annotations which certainly makes building forms much simpler (if you have not heard about this yet see Matthew Weier O’Phinney’s post and the ZF2 Documentation). After getting it up and running I found out about about the @ComposedObject annotation which seemed very useful, however it took a bit of fiddling to get it up and running, here’s how I did it. Continue reading
I just thought I’d apologize for the sudden lack of updates, I’m doing a course at the moment and it’s taking up my free time, it’s only a short course and I’ll be back with more stuff after that 
So far I’ve got the basic idea of how to test a ZF2 Controller with PHPUnit. However I had problems testing all my actions that used the AlbumTable class to load data from the database because I had no access to the ServiceManager which is used to provide AlbumTable to the controller. Obviously solving this was my next step…
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So far I’ve got a basic Zend Framework 2 Application up and running and got PHPUnit running & testing one of my models. Next up I wanted to try and workout how to test a controller.
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Now that I’ve got a little MVC application up and running in Zend Framework 2 (see my previous post) I decided it was time to try and get PHPUnit to play with it. While I don’t think I’m alone in wanting to use ZF2 & PHPUnit together it’s certainly something not many people are talking about.
Here I will show how I bootstrapped PHPUnit with the Zend Framework. Continue reading
After a little Google search for a good intro into the Zend Framework 2 I came up with Rob Allen aka Akrabat’s tutorial. I’d had a little play with ZF2 before when it was in beta 3 or beta 4 but after opening up beta 5 I was quite surprised to see how much things had changed.
Rob has not yet updated his tutorial but I understand an update is coming very very soon, while meaning that some things in the tutorial didn’t work it gave me the opportunity to do some digging into the Zend Framework code & documentation to get it up and running.
Not having a development environment at home I decided I needed to set one up. I wanted something that would run Eclipse smoothly and the only PC I had which I thought was capable was my music studio PC running Windows 7. Continue reading
So here is little bit about what I hope this blog will be about and why I’m creating it. Hopefully I’ll learn some things in the process and by posting what I learn here it will help others. Also I hope some of you will tell me what I’m doing wrong and give suggestions on improving my methods. Continue reading