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Entries tagged as oop

Thursday, September 11. 2008

Setting up your Zend_Test test suites

Now that Zend_Test has shipped, developers are of course asking, "How do I setup my test suite?" Fortunately, after some discussion with my colleagues and a little experimenting on my one, I can answer that now.

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Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in PHP at 15:00 | Comments (42) | Trackback (1)

Defined tags for this entry: best practices, mvc, oop, php, testing, zend framework

Monday, June 30. 2008

Migrating OOP Libraries and Frameworks to PHP 5.3

With PHP 5.3 coming up on the horizon, I'm of course looking forward to using namespaces. Let's be honest, who wants to write the following line?

$viewRenderer = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('viewRenderer');

when the more succinct:

$viewRenderer = HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('viewRenderer');

could be used? (Assuming you've executed 'use Zend::Controller::Action;' somewhere earlier...)

However, while namespaces will hopefully lead to more readable code, particularly code in libraries and frameworks, PHP developers will finally need to start thinking about sane standards for abstract classes and interfaces.

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Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in PHP at 09:00 | Comments (58) | Trackbacks (3)

Defined tags for this entry: best practices, oop, php, zend framework

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