Search for Group Photos
Flickr offers a wide variety of photo support and user participation. Users can comment on each other's photos, so it comes as no suprise that Flickr has allowed users to join together into groups that share the same interests. If you're a fan of crazy costumed fans at KISS concerts, you can find others who share their recent Gene Simmons and gang photos on Flickr. Let's see how you can view it by using the Zend_Service_Flickr component. You need the group ID, which you find by doing a search...
Creating a Server
Two main classses, Zend_Rest_Client and Zend_Rest_Server, make up the Zend_Rest component. These classes provide the option to either create a REST client or a server that accepts REST requests. Before you dive into the client and call web services, you'll create your own server, which you'll later use to test the REST client implementations. Looking under the hood, the Zend_Rest_Server class allows you to specify either a method or a complete class that contains the code to process requests....
Creating Textarea Fields
Let's create a textarea, a widely used form element that allows developers to create an input field in which the user has ample amount of space to type in any number of characters. This is a great field if you want the user to type in large amounts of data, such as a personal biography or a short story. To add the element to the form, you use the Zend_Form_Element_TextArea class. Let's use the new Zend_Form_Element_TextArea class to create the update form. The new action will create the update...
Request Object
Going back to the MVC life cycle, after the controller finishes processing with no errors, it initializes the user interface UI that the user will see, otherwise known as the view. Because the view is a critical component for the controller, the controller automatically creates three objects for immediate use The Request object is covered in this section you'll look at the ViewRenderer and the Response object in Chapter 4 . The Request object handles all incoming user data or any data sent from...
Using Item Elements
Channel element information is only half of what Zend_Feed can parse. The second main section of an RSS document are the items syndicated articles contained in the document. Table 7-18 shows the full list of tags the Zend_Feed component supports when parsing the document's data. Using the table, you'll expand on the section's example and parse the two articles contained in the rssexample.xml RSS feed. Table 7-18. Zend_Feed_RSS Supported Item Tags Element Method Call Return Type M-Array elements...
LoudBitecom
Sign Up View All Artists Add Artists My Store Add to Favorite List Figure 4-2. Adding a favorite artist You need a way to process the data the user submits using the add artist page. Create an additional action, saveArtistAction , in the ArtistController.php file, as shown in Listing 4-4. Listing 4-4. ArtistController.php New Additions Save the Artist entered by the user. artistName genre rating isFav The new action, saveArtistAction , is invoked after the user has submitted the form rendered...
Installing PDO
Out of the box, Zend Framework's database support works, but it requires an additional piece to function properly when using it with PHP's PDO. What's PDO, how do you get it, and how can you install it PDO, which stands for PHP Data Object, is an extension that requires and is included with all PHP 5 installations. PDO allows a PHP developer using different relational database management systems RDBMSs to access data in a universal way. If the system used MySQL without the PDO extension, you...
Creating Cached Records
This chapter began by looking at a small home page scenario that loads content from disk and the database. Now, let's expand on that scenario and assume that your traffic has increased. The application takes a total of five seconds to load both static content as well as dynamic content. The static content is composed of images and rarely changes. You also have database-driven, dynamic content. The dynamic content changes periodically from every hour to every day. One quick way to decrease the...
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account portion, 63 account_id column, 49 accountArtistData array, 175 AccountController class, 56, 62, 227 AccountController successAction method, 70, 83 AccountController.php controller file, 117 AccountController.php file, 58, 63, 69-71, 121-127, 157, 161, 167, 171, 177, 186, 193, 245-247 accountmanagerAction action, 188 accountmanager.phtml file, 188 accounts database table, 165 Accounts module logging in and out, 39-40 overview, 36-38 signing up, 39 user profile page, 40-41 user update...
Listing newsphtml
lt php echo this- gt doctype 'XHTML1_STRICT' gt lt html xml lang en lang en gt lt php echo this- gt headTitle 'LoudBite.com - News amp amp Info ' gt lt h3 gt News and Info lt h3 gt lt table gt lt tr gt lt td gt Artist name goes here lt td gt lt tr gt lt tr gt lt td gt News items will go here lt td gt lt tr gt lt tr gt lt td gt Items of interest lt td gt lt tr gt lt table gt lt body gt lt html gt Now let's take a look at the controller-action pair. In Listing 4-12, the placeholders check...