model layer

Article originally from rooJSolutions blog

There's been quite a demand recently for online shops, While I do have a custom online shop, It's currently quite specific to a client, and does not have a generic frontend.

So any kind of re-purposing involves creating a new design. Obviously this looks like a good long term plan, along with open sourcing it properly.
However in the meantime, I discovered opencart a few weeks ago, and for a quick and dirty shop delivery it's not to bad.

Article originally from rooJSolutions blog
Being a Software Developer is all about developing applications faster, and delivering quicker.

At the same time ensuring that quality is not lost and readibility is kept. DB_DataObjects is one of the key tools in my productivity toolkit.

In a new post on the Rdavid.net blog there's some discussion about Zend Framework models, the best approach and a "Service Class" idea.

On Rdavid.net there's a post with the results from some tests run on hos much memory the Zend Framework and Doctrine used both with and without the APC caching.

Jamie Rumbelow has proposed an idea to help simply some of the interactions your CodeIgniter application can have with your databases by using named scopes.

In his latest post to his blog Lukas Smith looks at what things users and developers seem to hate about most of the content management systems available today (not just PHP-specific either).

Following up on a previous post of his concerning a bit of different thinking around models in Zend Framework applications, Jim Plush is back with this new post about some decisions he's made.

Adam Jensen has added another post (a followup to a previous one looking at Zend Framework modules) about a "first draft" of a practical application of the topic - the code for a Zend Framework content model.