Category Archives: Zend Framework

Helper class for Zend Framework apps

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Maybe it’s because I got my ZF start from Magento, but I’m enamoured with having a static class full of global helper methods.

For example:

/**
* Get the user's real IP address through proxies
*
* @return string
*/
public static function getIpAddress() {
    // Gets the user's real IP address
    if ( isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) && !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) ) {
        $ips = explode(',', $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']);
        return trim($ips[count($ips) - 1]);
    } elseif ( isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']) && !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']) ) {
        return $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
    }
    return $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
}

Implementation and more examples behind the cut

Case-insensitive module URLs in Zend Framework routes

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I started creating modules for my application using the CamelCase module names, as I interpreted the standard ZF syntax (ex. /path/to/app/root/application/modules/User/controllers/).  Then I realised this made my urls case-sensitive as well (ex., http://www.example.com/User/).

Uppercase/CamelCase module names still make more sense to me, since the class names inherit the case.  If I used lowercase module names (ex., modules/user/) then my classnames would also be lowercase (ex., user_Model_Name) which really seems funny to me.

So I opted to make a front controller plugin to handle the conversion for me, thus making module names in the URL inherently case-insensitive.   Continue reading Case-insensitive module URLs in Zend Framework routes →