I wrote a little TODO application in Zend Framework (1.8) and Doctrine ORM (1.1). I’m posting it more as a sample (practice) app for Zend and Doctrine newcomers. Entire process of adding, deleting and editing TODO’s is AJAX based. I used jQuery and Jeditable plugin for it. jQuery and Jeditable plugins are provided in this zip-ed archive. You should...

User input validation in todays modern web applications plays extremely important role. Simply put, it’s better to have no data at all then corrupted one. I do a lot of Magento development and I must say I like it’s front-end JavaScript validation. I’ve seen a lot of JavaScript validation so far and most of them turn to be overkill in setup. In...

I like ORM’s more that I like pure SQL approach. I’m not saying pure SQL is bad, not at all. I just like the way ORM’s enable you to (almost) forget the database part and fully give yourself to OOP stuff. Almost everyone who ever wrote the code that wrote something into the database needed to know what the last insert id was. Let’s say...

Wrote a little article at Inchoo.net site. Here is direct link: Doctrine ORM and Zend Framework, sample project to get you started (with sample database).