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Create RESTful Applications Using The Zend Framework - Tutorial Series

In the first two posts of this series, we discussed how to route REST requests to controllers and return HTTP response code. In this article I will talk about managing API keys.

Having the clients send API key within the HTTP header is convenient to handle. We can quickly check the HTTP request header and decide whether to allow or deny the request.

As a prerequisite you should be familiar writing front controller plugins. Let's write a front controller plugin that does the following:

Broadcom provides Linux drivers for most of its wireless chipsets. Prior to the release of official drivers from Broadcom, the open source software community had various workarounds. Some people used Windows drivers through ndiswrapper. Others used fwcutter.

The RPM Fusion Repository for Fedora offers the Broadcom wireless drivers from its repositories. You can install them using yum.

Step 1: Enable the RPM Fusion repositories

 
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

How to play music and video(MP3, MPEG, AVI, FLV and other multimedia files) in Fedora 12?

Due to patent encumbrance codecs required to play some proprietary file formats are not shipped with Fedora. Codecs are the programs that encode and decode digital data. These codecs are available in the rpmfusion repository for Fedora. You will be able to play mpeg, mp3, avi, flv and other commonly used file formats for music and video. You will require an Internet connection to download and install these packages on your computer.

Let us get started. Are you ready?

Last Saturday, the Bangalore PHP User Group conducted a meeting. The venue was same as the last time, Microsoft office, Bangalore! The topic of the meeting was Framework Shootout. The frameworks represented were:

• Zend Framework

How to configure keyboard short cut to minimze all windows on KDE 4.3.3 on Fedora

Having the Show Desktop button on the panel is something everyone would want. If you are unable to find the settings follow the instructions below.

1. Install the kdeplasma-addons package.

# yum install kdeplasma-addons -y

2. Add the Show Desktop widget to the panel.

• Click the Cashew button on the panel - the rightmost corner button
• Click Add Widgets
• Click Show Desktop
• Click Add Widget

Title: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development
Author: Keith Pope
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
ISBN 1847194222
ISBN 13 978-1-847194-22-0

The Zend Framework community needed a book covering version 1.8+. Version 1.8 brought new notable features. Zend_Application is one among them. Zend_Application introduced object oriented bootstrapping in applications that otherwise used a procedural script. A bunch of users had difficulty understanding how to set up their applications to make use of the new bootstrapping component. All of them have seem to understand it well now, thanks to support in the official mailing lists and IRC channel. Zend_Navigation, Zend_Tool and enhancements to filter and validation components were other noteworthy additions to Zend Framework 1.8. For a full list of changes and additions to the 1.8 version see the release notes.

I contacted PackT Publishing Ltd and asked for the book to write this review. They were kind enough to quickly send me a copy of the ebook.

Let's begin exploring the book.

Title: Pro PHP XML and web services
Author: Robert Richards
Publisher: Apress
ISBN13: 978-1-59059-633-3

If you are a PHP programmer and looking to expand your knowledge in XML and web services areas, the book is a good resource. The book assumes no prior knowledge about XML and web services. It assumes you are capable of writing PHP programs independently.

Download the table of contents PDF document from the publisher.

Today, the Bangalore PHP User Group had a meeting. The meetup.com site reports that sixty eight people attended the meeting. The venue was at Microsoft. The increasing participation of Microsoft in PHP conferences and meetings have taken many by surprise. Microsoft were kind enough to offer free Pizza for all the attendees.

They have given me a copy of Windows 7 Release Candidate which expires on June 1, 2010. If time permits, I will sure try to install it as a virtual guest.

In the previous articles I've written about using Dojo date pickers and filteringSelect widgets.