Joanna Walker

Enable delayed messages in Zend_Queue

The default Zend_Queue DB implementation unfortunately does not allow you to pass a timeout value when saving a message on the queue. However not all is lost and you can easily extend the standard Zend classes to add that functionality. All you need is your own Db adapter and

Zend_Db_Select multiple table joins explained

It sounds like a simple task – retrieve the result from a join SQL query. Unusually you can even find documentation on the official Zend Framework site explaining how to put together a query that will return the results from a JOIN query. Unfortunately when it actually comes to putting theory

Zend Framework Decorators - Labels and Checkboxes

Very often it is the smallest things that annoy us the most. It took me a while to figure out why the placement parameter was not changing anything. I started of with the following: 'decorators' => array( array('Label'), array('ViewHelper') ) Unfortunately switching the

Using Zend_Mail and Google SMTP to send emails

You can set this globally, for example in your bootstrap.php file: $tr = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp('smtp.gmail.com', array( 'auth' => 'login', 'username' => 'YOUR_USERNAME@gmail.com', 'password' => 'YOUR_PASSWORD', '

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