Bisna: Integrating Zend Framework and Doctrine 2 ORM

Guilherme Blanco’s Bisna package integrates Doctrine 2 and Zend Framework 1 using a custom Zend Framework application resource plug: Bisna\Application\Resource\Doctrine

Getting Bisna to work with DoctrineCommon 2.1.0

UPATED 7/21/2011 Guilherme Blanco has updated Bisna. It now works with Doctrine 2.1.0. Just download it from github. It now incorporates the changes mentioned below as of 7/21/2011.

The Bisna library integrates Zend Framework version 1.x and the Doctrine 2 ORM; however, it dids not work properly with version 2.1.0 of the DoctrineCommon package. This article shows how to get it to work.
(actually, this article is now obsolete because Bisna now works with Doctrine 2.1.0)

Pear on XAMPP

These are the steps I following to get the pear command line utility pear.bat working under xampp for windows.

Configuring XAMPP for virtual hosts

How to Setup Virtual Hosts on XAMPP explains how.

Be sure to also add the section for localhost, as explained in the article; otherwise you won’t be able to access htt://localhost, which is the XAMPP start page.

Doctrine 2 ORM Cookbook example

The first portion of the Doctrine 2 ORM Cookbook example is available on sourceforge. See the included README.txt.

cli-config.php for Doctrine 2 ORM

This article shows how to set up cli-config.php for use with the Doctrine 2 command line utility, doctrine. It assumes you installed Doctrine 2 using pear.

_forward _redirect and redirector action helper

What is the different between _forward, _redirect and the various Redirector action helper’s methods?

1. Zend_Controller_Action::_forward($action, $controller = null, $module = null, array $params = null)

What does _forward do? The dispatch loop order for a request (see this illustration of the request dispatch cycle):

preDispatch()
someAction()
postDispatch()

Zend Form Element Decorators

This UML illustrates how Zend Framework employs decorators to tailor the appearance of individual Zend_Form_Elements.

local variables don’t display in Netbeans with php 5.3.2 and xdebug 2.0.5

After upgrading Ubuntu from Karmic to Lucid, local variables no longer display in Netbeans while debugging. The problem is due to an incompatibility between xdebug 2.0.5 and php5.3.2, as this article shows.

Zend Framework findDependentRowset() and findParentRow() demo

This is a working example of the Zend_Db_Table_Row methods findDependRowset() and findParentrow(). Create the test database using this sample.sql: