In this series I will walk you through the code of a site that uses only Ajax and Scriptaculous to handle it’s completely windowed interface. Making an interface like this is not really good design, it’s only done here for the sake of teaching. It is kinda cool though. Especially if you have a big screen.... Read More

In this part we will take a look at how the main content area can change based on user actions. This is basically done in the same way we display menus with the difference that we have to give insert_item() dynamic data.... Read More

Before we begin I want to stress that this is not a newbie tutorial. If the current level is too much for you I recommend these tutorials:
For the Zend Framework
For Smarty... Read More

Update: Since writing this series I have chosen to not work with Zend DB anymore, I’m using PHP Doctrine instead, I have also thrown out Smarty in favor of H2O. Doctrine is a proper ORM which is far superior in functionality to Zend DB, and H2O feels like a much cleaner and more modern templating solution than Smarty. ... Read More

Provided that you have checked my earlier tutorial on how to make instatiable controllers you could now use that functionality to create a widget system with Smarty.... Read More

Update: Since writing this I’ve instead started using jQuery for my Ajax needs, you should too, or MooTools maybe. I’ve written a new piece demonstrating how jQuery can be used with ZF.... Read More