PHP Doctrine Named Queries

Doctrines named queries are brilliant, nothing less! They resemble named scope from Rails ActiveRecord, they give you the ability to create your most often used queries as encapsulated methods which are easy to maintain and reuse.

Zend, Doctrine and PHPUnit a great threesome

I’m a sucker for executing PHPUnit tests using my konsole.

Using rake I have set up a build script that executes my Doctrine migrations and runs my PHPUnit test suite.

Zend Cache, Registry and translation

If your working on a project that requires translating text it’s crucial that you have something ready from day one, having to go back and translate an entire application just takes too much time… and it’s damn boring as well.

Zend Doctrine and PHPUnit

I’m currently working on a project where I want to use zend for MVC ‘n stuff, Doctrine for ORM and PHPUnit testing for … well unit testing.

Integrating Zend Framework and Doctrine

During the last nigth or two I’ve been working on getting Zend and Doctrine to play nicely together and now the effort payes off.