Comments on: Reviews

By: sohdubom

sohdubom — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:44:43 +0000

hi. first of, that’s a great zend book … 2 questions: in your book, you say: “Zend Framework chose not to implement the ActiveRecord pattern and not to ship with an Object-Relation Mapper (ORM). Contrary to popular opinion, this was not an oversight but a conscious decision by the framework team.”

1. Do you now why?
2. What about adding an external ORM component to work with ZF?

thanx in advance :-)

By: nadobnykh

nadobnykh — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:05:29 +0000

Hi Cal,

Thanks for the book at first!

I think, that the emailCheck() method should return true, if no emailAddress was found in the database, because actually emailCheck() method return false in the follow cases:
1. if emailAddress was not found in the db (what we need to allow registering) and
2. if emailAddress validation fails (where you need to give the user a second chance)

The two cases:
emailAddress not valid and
emailAddress not exists in the db
should be processed successively, but not return the same result.

sorry if i have overseen anything :)

(Sorry for my bad English :))

By: Barry Voeten

Barry Voeten — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:22:05 +0000

Sorry to tell, but the link to the Devschuur (the dutch) article is foney. The whole devschuur domain is now a traffic magnet….

By: dele

dele — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:10:42 +0000

Your book is simply fantastic. Being reading lots of tutorials and watching webinars. But your book simply brings all the pieces together. Great work!!

By: Mathieu Kooiman

Mathieu Kooiman — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:41:11 +0000

Hi Cal,

Here’s another review, by another Dutchy by the way: http://www.scriptorama.nl/reviews/review-phparchitects-guide-to-programming-with-zend-framework

In English, as to prevent any Babelfish humor :)

By: Julian Moors

Julian Moors — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:23:28 +0000

I just bought the pdf version in the early hours of this morning and I’m glad I did. Even though I am new to OOP in PHP 5 I decided to use the Zend Framework as I believe it to be very flexible and easy to use (this was confirmed from reading your book). I haven’t quite finished it yet as I wanted to work through the examples a bit more, thank you Cal for writing such an amazing book.

By: Gauke Pieter Sietzema

Gauke Pieter Sietzema — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:01:11 +0000

Thanks for the Thanks Cal. I enjoyed your book and allthough I didnt read it completely at the time I recommended it. You can be sure about that ;)

By: Ivo

Ivo — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:12:28 +0000

You’re welcome! And thank you for the personally signed copy! :-) (note to readers; it came after the review, it didn’t influence my judgement ;)