Friday, August 29. 2008

ZF+Dojo Webinar

I'm giving a webinar on Zend Framework and Dojo Integration this coming Wednesday, 3 Sept 2008.

I'm particularly excited about this webinar, as I've been developing a sample pastebin application to show off a number of features; the webinar will feature some screencasts showing the new code in action, and promises to be much more dynamic than my typical "bullet point and code" presentations.

I'm also going to show some techniques to use when developing with ZF+Dojo, including how to create custom builds once you're ready to deploy your application (and why you want to do so).

Register today!

Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in PHP at 16:13 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)
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Hi,

I'm looking forward to that webinar.
I hope there's plenty of code and examples to get everybody to know better the integration between the framework and dojo and how to use it.

Probably this is not the best place to ask this, but sure you are the best person to answer, so:

How can I use dijits like the Tooltip, the TooltipDialog, the Dialog, the DropdownButton, the ProgressBar, etc, with the framework? I was looking for an easy and simple way to do it just with $dojo_form->addElement('TooltipDialog',.....), but that's not implemented in the framework, right?
Are there plans to implement all dojo dijits?
And what's the best way to use them while their not "directly supported"?

Best Regards and keep up the good work (:
#1 Tiago Nunes on 2008-09-01 21:55 (Reply)
Right now, we implement all form and layout dijits (with a few exceptions -- dijit.form.SimpleTextarea was overlooked; dijit.Editor, while not a dijit.form dijit, is typically considered a form dijit, but proved difficult to support -- though I posted a working version to this blog this past week; and Dropdown buttons were omitted due to complexity and lack of overlap with existing Zend_Form elements). This was as much as (and actually a little more than) we planned to cover for Dijit support in 1.6.0.

1.6.0 marks the *beginning* of our Dojo integration, and we will continue to add more and better support in coming releases. However, we need to know what you, the users, want to use. If you see areas of Dojo you would like supported in ZF, please create proposals and/or feature requests!
#1.1 Matthew Weier O'Phinney (Link) on 2008-09-01 22:46 (Reply)
I want to use three particular dijits that are not nativelly supported, dijit.Tooltip, dijit.TooltipDialog and dijit.Dialog.

If I have to, I'm gonna use them "around" the framework, writing my own javascript, but I would like to use helpers like the ones that already exist for other dijits.

What's the best way to do it? Which classes should I extend or implement?
#2 Tiago Nunes on 2008-09-01 22:58 (Reply)
You'll want to extend Zend_View_Helper_Dijit.
#2.1 Matthew Weier O'Phinney (Link) on 2008-09-02 06:47 (Reply)
Great webinar Matthew. I heard your comment on this topic, but can we have the code? Please?
#3 Matthew Lurz on 2008-09-04 08:48 (Reply)
I will be making the code available before long. I need to iron out some unit tests and incorporate a few suggestions from the Dojo folks before I do, however. Keep watching my blog for an announcement.
#3.1 Matthew Weier O'Phinney (Link) on 2008-09-04 09:04 (Reply)

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