Alejandro Celaya | Blog

Last week I passed the Zend Framework 2 Certified Architect exam. I will try to explain how did I prepare it. Studying In late March I recived an email that my exam was going to be on May the seventh, so I saw that I was going to have 4-6 weeks to prepare it. I could have started earlier, but maybe …

There are many situations where you need multiple database connections in your application. In this post I am going to explain how to configure a connection to 2 databases to be used by Doctrine in Zend Framework 2 and how to configure a master-slave connection. Both examples will be using MySQL. Le…

Some time ago I created a Zend Framework 2 module designed to wrap Zend\Mail and ease sending emails in a Zend Framework 2 application. I was copy-pasting the code of that module in many applications so I decided it was a good candidate to become an independent module. After creating it I pushed it …

Dependency management is very important in any kind of project. Any application will need to use third party libraries to avoid to reinvent the wheel. The problem is that getting each one of them from a different place takes time, and it's not easy to be sure we get the correct version. To solve thi…

Any programmer that is used to use Zend Framework version 1 will have been in the situation that Zend Framework version 2 has removed Controller Plugins as they were in the first version of the framework. Controller Plugins used to allow us to attach code to be executed at some points of the executi…