Sunsetting PEAR Channel for Zend Framework 1

Sunsetting PEAR Channel for Zend Framework 1 The unofficial PEAR channel for Zend Framework 1 was created in 2016 , at the time when PEAR was still used a lot. Due to the fact that is a pain to upgrade … Read More

Doctrine Cache in Mezzio and Dotkernel

Doctrine caching in DotKernel Following version 2 of doctrine/cache, in 2024 we published an update to this article here: https://www.dotkernel.com/dotkernel/doctrine-cache-using-symfony-cache/ Using an ORM in production without any sort of cache strategy is a very bad move. The Database server chokes; … Read More

Dotkernel Admin version 3 launched

Dotkernel Admin PHP Application version 3 was launched. Dotkernel is a Collection of PSR-7 Middleware applications built on top of Mezzio microframework and using Laminas components  Dotkernel Admin is a basic admin panel, based on Boostrap ^4.5.0 , using Doctrine … Read More

Dotkernel Frontend version 3 launched

Dotkernel Frontend PHP Application version 3 was launched. Dotkernel is a Collection of PSR-7 Middleware applications built on top of Mezzio microframework and using Laminas components You can clone it from github Live demo: v3.dotkernel.net Changelog: Branch 3.0 is the … Read More

DotKernel API Client Side Authorization

This article covers the basic authorization of a Client application which use a backend built using DotKernel API Authorization Request Client application users send a POST request to the backend containing the following JSON object: { “grant_type”: “password”, “client_id”: “{API_CLIENT}”, … Read More

Zend Framework 1 End-of-Life

EOL ( End-of-Life)  term was just announced. Only up until Sept. 28,2016 , Zend Framework 1 will receive security updates.   ” With the release of Zend Framework 3, it’s time to halt development on Zend Framework 1. As such, … Read More

Migration of Zend Framework 1 PEAR channel

This post is old and probably out of date. The unofficial PEAR channel for Zend Framework 1 was hosted on Google Code at this location: ZF Pear, but since the closing of Google Code we were forced to move it. … Read More

Zend_Mail and Zend_Http Security Fixes in Zend Framework 1.12.12

The release of ZF 1.12.12 was just announced,  with Security Updates especially on Zend_Mail and Zend_Http components. For more information, please read the official release announcement: Zend Framework 1.12.12 Released Also, the ZF  PEAR channel was updated to latest 1.12.12 … Read More

Implementing the new Password Hashing API from PHP 5.5 in DotKernel

This post refers to DotKernel 1, based on Zend Framework 1. If you are looking for DotKernel 3 related posts, go here. In order to use the new Password Hashing functions , introduced in PHP 5.5 , and unify all … Read MoreRead More

Better Unicode Support in MySQL 5.5 UTF8MB4

Beginning with version 5.5 of MySQL , utf8mb4 character set was introduced, in order to better support Unicode. Further reading: MySQL and Unicode , also directly related to PHP Sample dk.sql file, part of DotKernel framework, was updated in revision … Read More