I ran into an issue where the SOAP API just stopped working. Turns out that http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/ was down, and the SOAP API references it. So, in order to get rid of this additional third party dependency, I have been trying to rewrite our communication bridge using the XML-RPC API instead.…
Cache Your Zend Framework Config to Improve Performance
Are you trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your Zend Framework application? Once you have implemented caching for queries, templates, etc. there is still one other piece of the puzzle you can cache, the application.ini config. For every page load, this config has to be read…
Zend_Test: Dealing with Dates
I have been writing a lot of integration tests lately and wanted to share a quick tip about how to deal with datetime and timestamp columns in the table you are testing.