Zend Framework is not only a framework but a robust library for many kind of operations and services. While working with Drupal or WordPress sometime we found that a good library for one particular operation is already available in Zend Framework.

You can easily use Zend Framework library in your projects with bothering about its app framework and MVC structure. Drupal and WordPress both have mechanism to use Zend framework in them without doing any major work.

Drupa module for Zend Framework

Its very easy to setup and use. You can start using Zend Framework in your Drupal modules within few minutes.
Installation and usage instructions are available on Module’s page.

http://drupal.org/project/zend

This module is available for version 6 as well as 7 of Drupal.

WordPress plugin for Zend Framework

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zend-framework

This module also provide embedded Zend framework library and easy to install and setup.

Plugin’s official setup instructions need one clarification (As I am writing this).

On page

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zend-framework/installation/

Following instruction has been mentioned.

1. Upload plugin-name.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

I think writer forgot to change the instruction template, this can be read at

1. Upload zend-framework folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

One more plugin is also available for WordPress at

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-zff-zend-framework-full

This module has instructions which are more detailed and precise to be used.

Let�s plug the power of Zend Framework library to these wonderful CMSs and enjoy the benefits.

Hi, I have created a page on my this blog named PHP Interview Questions on which I will compile a list of questions which I normally asks to my candidates. I am not worried about leaking my questions strategy as I know only a good person can handle my supplementary questions I asked on the spot.

From now I will write about my experiences with Open Source CMSs/E-commerce Solutions everyday, I have planned to write about my projects and my work in those CMSs as a php developer.

I have planned following CMSs :

1. Joomla
2. WordPress
3. Drupal
4. SugarCRM
5. OsCommerce
6. Magento
7. PHPbb
8. ZenCart

Of course this list will increase everyday,

As PHP is gaining the ground in India, numbers of initial level jobs are also increasing day by day. Almost every day I got questions from new comers how they can learn PHP? Which training institute is providing the training in PHP?

Unfortunately almost all major player of training industry in India, specially Delhi are still not doing much (I should nothing) in this regard.

So I am thinking about organizing PHP training camps in and around Delhi in this summer, If you would like to be in that camp, I would request you for sending a message via my contact us page.

Please give me some details about yourself and in which area of Delhi or NCR you will prefer the camp.

Click here to send your message for PHP training camp.

This question again struck me today, somebody just throw a simple question about EXPLAIN statement in MySQL and in hast I relate that to DESCRIBE. When that person cut the line of phone, I suddenly realize my mistake.

I am working with PHP and MySQL since last seven years then why this happen to me? This is because I am not using MySQL frequently, although it is the integral part of almost every application I am working on. I am fairly away from MySQL queries because I am using my factory classes or framework like cakephp which does not require me to write the SQL queries. Almost all of my operations on database are covered within my CRUD classes. Even complex select or updates are possible using simple search objects in my factory classes or framework I am using.

BUT this practice has caused a deficiency in my knowledge of MySQL statements. This situation is really horrible sometime. Do I need to stop using my factory classe practice and abstraction. I normally prefer abstraction and factory classes because I want to make my code portable to other databases also.

I am really a in fix What should I do?
BUT again another question struck me What is more important? My knowledge of MySQL statements or fast and portable execution of projects. When we got the higher level, we certainly miss the lower level details of applications.

So I will stick to my factory classes, because I know I may struggle with some academic questions about MySQL for the time being but at least I can do the stuff with just one reference to MySQL manual. Above all I may face problem in simple MySQL statements but I am good at high level things like replication and performance tuning at server level.

What you say is it a good decision?

PHP 5 is in the market since many years, but it still has to capture the market.

Why? Is it not efficient version of PHP language?

What are main reasons behind slow-adoption of PHP version 5.

I am compiling a list of reasons; you can also send me the reason why you have moved to PHP5 or why you are not able to do that?

I will write about that list in my coming articles.

In this article I am going to write my experience with a work in which I was supposed to do file upload progress bar.

First of all I consider using APC then came to know about PECL extension uploadprogress

Unfortunately both were not possible for me as I have no control on the server on which it was supposed to run.

Tweaking with installed version of PHP or up gradation of PHP was also ruled out.

In India we have a word which is very common in use whenever someone is in a deadlock, the magic word is ‘Jugad’, if simply translated into English, it will mean ‘system’, but in contextual meaning it stands for ‘Smart Work’.

Well I can not claim that adjective for this work, as it has some contextual limitations but it is working solution.

Before I jump to the final details of the working structure, I would like to recollect some facts about file uploading in PHP.

Whenever you upload something via a PHP page, it gets uploaded to a temporary folder on server then programmer has to move it from there to a proper location via PHP script.

That temporary folder can be defined in php.ini file and if not defined PHP uses operating systems default temporary folder.

I have created this script with the help of Ajax.

First of all I have changed temporary folder of PHP to a folder on which I have some control so I can access that with my PHP scripts time to time. Then I have created a form to upload the file to server.

I created another PHP script to calculate the size of a particular folder and THATS’S IT application was finished.

Whenever someone hits the upload button, file upload starts to the server.Using Ajax I call my other script which that calculates the size of temp folder after every second, and then I show the updated html page with file size using Ajax.

You can call it dirty programming but it is working solution to this problem in any version of PHP.

When this solution will not work?

It will always work but in some situations may give you wrong results. This approach will not produce desired results on the servers where lots of file handling is being done via PHP and lots of people are doing file upload at one go.

Although it can be designed to have multiple file upload at same time like instead of temporary folder we can opt for calculation of particular temporary file in temporary folder and that file can be guessed by the upload button hit time, but that is not 100% usable in every situation. If lots of people are uploading the files at same time it may conflicts with each other.

Did you like this Jugad?

The proposed $350 million buyout announced in the first half April,2006 by Linux distributor Red Hat, Inc., of Java middleware maker JBoss, Inc. is seen by analysts as the first major consolidation initiative in the open source software realm that has potential to challenge the might of software giants like Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.

They admit the cash and stock deal has fallacies — The $350 million Red Hat is paying for JBoss ($420 million if JBoss hits all revenue targets) is higher than Red Hat’s $278 million in revenue for the fiscal ended 28 February. And JBoss is said to have had around $80 million in revenue during the fiscal. But, they say the scope the merged entity holds out — middleware has huge prospects — is the key element of Red Hat’s offer and it is the future that is looked at.

Read the news which discuss financial aspects of deal between Redhat and JBOSS