PHP dependency injection

As most of the readers of this site, you probably know that my main platforms for development are Magento, Zend Framework, WordPress and Drupal. Sometimes the best and most fun part of our job is playing with the language itself (PHP). Recently I came across this term “dependency injection”. Hmmm, I wondered what it is. To be honest, not until few days ago have I ever heard about it. After some...

Zend Core (LAMP/WAMP stack) overview

For those interested in Zend Core (LAMP/WAMP stack), I wrote (screen-shotted) a little Zend Core overview at Inchoo.net (direct link).

Utilize FireBug (and FirePHP) to speed up Magento development

Upsss… it’s 1 hour after midnight, still not sleeping. Hopefully I’ll manage to wake up in the morning, since I’m working. Anyhow… here’s a little something I made for you guys (for those who find it useful). I was playing around with Zend Framework today, checking out available classes and methods. My eyes filled with yoj when I came across Zend_Wildfire_Plugin_FirePhp class....

Zend Studio for Eclipse Professional | review at Inchoo.net

For those interested, here is a short overview of Zend Studio for Eclipse Professional 6.1 I wrote at Inchoo.net. I say short because Zend Studio is huge… lots, and lots of features. Would be insane to go and list all of them. I suggest you download it and try it out. Must say it looks great. I’m considering the possibility to purchase a license. I love the latests NetBeans because of it’s support...

PHP tricks, converting variable to method

Yesterday I was playing with Magento. Checking out the source code (methods, classes). I found an interesting class called Mage_Core_Model_Config_Options. Interesting because of the way you call methods from it. To be honest, I did not know that one can store string name into the variable and if that name is the same as the name of some method inside the class you can call that method using that variable...