Well along the Zend Framework journey, the biggest issue now is performance, since the applications run on shared hosting accounts. We have caching enabled for the navigation menus, translation, and even Doctrine queries, however the pages still load slow. Well one of the caching front ends (http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.cache.frontends.html) is the Page front end. The configuration is […]
Zend Framework – Authentication Component and Page Caching
Well now back after a few weeks caught between the new baby and closing out a few projects. Still getting more goodness from Zend Framework, as we replace a lot of our home grown code with framework components. The latest has been replacing custom login queries with Zend Auth (http://www.framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.auth.html) In 15 minutes the connection initialization, […]
PHP Externalization of Messages
As part of a project we are involved in there is a need for externalization of messages, both error and labels from the application into an external file. From within Java, this is available as message and resource bundles, and the Spring framework smoothens this process. In PHP this is another story, as the options […]