Gary Hockin

Gary Hockin Blog

Technical musings on PHP, specifically Zend Framework (1 and 2)

Is Composer the Path to the Promised Land?

Friday 10th May 2013

With the wide adoption of Composer, does this mark a shift change in the projects the OS community will be working on?


An Introduction to Zend Framework 2 for the Zend Framework 1 Developer - The Webinar

Tuesday 30th April 2013

The webinar of parts 1, 2 and mythical part 3 of my ZF2 for the ZF1 Developer blog posts.


An Introduction to Zend Framework 2 for the Zend Framework 1 Developer - Part 2

Friday 28th September 2012

Part 2 of my introduction to Zend Framework 2 for the ZF1 developer.


An Introduction to Zend Framework 2 for the Zend Framework 1 Developer - Part 1

Wednesday 26th September 2012

A look at what has changed in some of the core components between Zend Framework 1, and Zend Framework 2.


Zend Framework 2 and a Restful API Application

Tuesday 29th May 2012

How Zend Framework 2's built in features help you build a RESTful API.


ZendOAuth2Client maybe?

Thursday 10th May 2012

Coding an OAuth2 client for ZF2.


FB.Connect.streamPublish – wrestling the demons of the Facebook JS library

Friday 11th June 2010

Publishing to Facebook using FB.Connect.streamPublish.


Custom Messages for Zend_Form_Element::addValidator

Friday 4th June 2010

How to change the default validation error messages with Zend_Form.


Writing a Custom View Helper in Zend Framework

Thursday 1st April 2010

Writing and auto-loading a custom view helper in ZF.


AJAX interaction with PHP, using the ContextSwitch action helper in ZF

Monday 1st March 2010

Well, when looking to simplify some actions and views that present JSON data to pass back from AJAX queries, I was pointed in the direction of the ContextSwitch action helper.


Setting view variables from within a FC Plugin

Sunday 28th February 2010

In my first post below, I covered how to create a FC plugin to ensure that a user is authenticated when they access every controller.


Want to do something in every single controller? Use a Front Controller Plugin

Thursday 25th February 2010

Automatically run some code before every controller in Zend Framework.