Author Archives: chandan

Here’s how I return a list of keys from an associative array (i.e. an embedded document) without also returning their value. The data structure I have is shown below. It’s made up of an associative array [friends], which contains a set of keys (Twitter usernames) and values (details about the user). My aim was to return a list of the Twitter usernames, without all of the details associated to them which – in some cases – could be quite a […]

This wasn’t initially obvious to me, but when creating a generic module to use across multiple Zend Framework 2 projects (thus putting it in /vendor) you can include a Module.php file in the root of the module’s directory to make registering the namespace with Zend’s StandardAutoloader simple. (I had assumed this was just how it worked under the /module directory). So for example – I have a module with the namespace ‘Nas’, so I store it under: /zf2/vendor/Nas And then […]

In ZF1 I would generally include 3rd party API wrappers (Facebook, MailChimp, Google, etc) in Bootstrap.php using something like: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 protected function _initIncludes(){ include_once( ‘MobileDetect/Mobile-Detect-2.php’ ); include_once( ‘Facebook/php-sdk-v3.1.1-27/src/facebook.php’ ); include_once( ‘Google/google-api-php-client-0.5.0/src/apiClient.php’ ); include_once( ‘MailChimp/MCAPI-1.3.class.php’ ); } //_initIncludes Facebook PHP SDK Zend Framework 2 However there isn’t really anywhere appropriate to ‘include’ things this way in ZF2. Ideally we want to include the 3rd party class in the (/all) module(s) that actually use […]