A question for php devs who work for a company

UncleRuckus · 8 Apr 2011 at 13:40

Hi chaps, just wondering if and which php frameworks you use for your projects?
Or do you have your own in-house codebase?

I'm asking as I have I'm pretty competent at php but I am wondering if it would be something that would be useful for me to learn for potential employment?

Any comments and suggestions welcome.

UncleRuckus · 8 Apr 2011 at 18:53

A question about zend server I assume you have to use this for zend framework to run correctly? If this is the case is zend server quiet common to get from hosting companies?

Or is Zend server something else completely different?

UncleRuckus · 9 Apr 2011 at 01:00

Thanks for that.

I have never used an MVC before is there anything I should be aware of when coding in this manor? Will I have to think about writing classes in a different way?

UncleRuckus · 10 Apr 2011 at 00:18

Thanks Fabien, I think I shall weigh up which one I should use in my mind and then probably just stick to one.

UncleRuckus · 10 Apr 2011 at 01:23

RobH said:
We use Zend where I work for a couple of projects. Zend Server is a great way to get up and running with Zend Framework as it comes bundled with everything such as Apache and is preconfigured with the framework.

Zend server is not required for the Zend framework, you can stick a Zend Framework project on a bog standard PHP host as long as you have a copy of the framework in your application include directory.

Thanks Rob, what hosting company do you use for the zend server when the project goes live and what do you use when not using Zend?

UncleRuckus · 10 Apr 2011 at 02:34

RobH said:
We actually use a hosted cloud server running Ubuntu with the Zend Framework installed, the project is then served up by the main Apache instance we run on them which is also serving up our main application. The Zend Framework PHP stuff is an extension of our main application which is written in python and currently in a legacy python framework which we are supporting.

I would imagine pretty much any decent host with PHP support should be able to support the Zend Framework, after all it's only a collection of PHP files that you include.

Impressive! Makes my brain bleed

UncleRuckus · 10 Apr 2011 at 18:19

Right I decided to download Zend Server CE as it turned out xampp had an old version of zend framework installed and I didn't want to bugger up my installation. Is there a way to share my httpd-vhost from xampp with zend, how would I point to it?

UncleRuckus · 10 Apr 2011 at 19:20

Right well that's proving to be a pain in the butt, I shall just split my projects accordingly instead of forcing them to share files

UncleRuckus · 10 Apr 2011 at 19:44

Yep sorted now I have Zend running on each virtual host setup I create, went smoother than expected and all the includes are out of the document tree too.

UncleRuckus · 10 Apr 2011 at 20:27

This Zend server is incredibly good! Now for the framework.

UncleRuckus · 10 Apr 2011 at 21:03

Strange I cannot access phpmyadmin if I goto http://zend-test.local/phpmyadmin/ any ideas?

UncleRuckus · 10 Apr 2011 at 21:21

Ah It's one of two things either it didn't install with the typical installation or as I'm running phpmyadmin with xampp it's not letting me have to versions so I will have to running phpmyadmin via xampp then boot zend server.

Reinstalling now...

UncleRuckus · 10 Apr 2011 at 21:49

Yep sorted, it would also help if I use the right case typing the uri

UncleRuckus · 10 Apr 2011 at 22:17

With the oop you just have to stick at it matey

I haven't used codeigniter yet but have a look the database class user guide http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/index.html this should help.