Jon Lebensold » Video Tutorials

Getting ready for PHP6

jon — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:48:44 +0000

Stefan approached me awhile back to produce a short series of videos on what developers should be expecting as of PHP 5.3+. I try to keep the content of my tutorials in the context of trying to solve a specific problem. The project in this case is a home-grown MVC framework. I've borrowed some of the nomenclature from the Zend Framework since I work with it on a regular basis. Hopefully the discussion on PHP namespaces, closures and autoloading will be interesting. Check out Getting into PHP6 and Advanced PHP Concepts on KillerPHP.

new jQuery set launched on KillerPHP

jon — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:01:09 +0000

Stefan's been a terrific resource for my own professional development and I've also had the opportunity to produce videos for his sites, KillerPHP and KillerJavascript. The latest video set will guide the viewer through developing a simple application with jQuery. I try and emphasize the software paradigm rather than building a particular controller since I think a strong understanding of the basics of AJAX, JSON and jQuery will put you in a good position to implement any component demanded of you. Towards the end of the video, I discuss how we can serialize objects from PHP into JSON for easy portability between the frontend and backend of your application. Check out the beginner jQuery video tutorials on Killer Javascript!

Zend MVC Screencasts: Zend Layout, Controller, View and Db

jon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:34:36 +0000

I've put together a couple of Zend screencasts in an effort to explain some core concepts in Zend. I've entitled the series of three videos Working With Zend MVC and it's available free on Idea22. I've also included a sample project to get you started which you can also download.

Topics Covered:

Zend Framework Folder Structure
Zend_View and it's relationship to Zend_Controller
Zend_Controller and the management of form postbacks
Zend_Db Insert and Fetching rows
using Zend_Layout to build headers and footers using the Zend MVC model

I've posted the first video here. Comments are much appreciated!

Working on Video Tutorials

jon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:07:57 +0000

Lately, I've been recording myself as I'm playing with the soon-to-be-released 1.5 version of the Zend Framework. I'd like to get a handful of tutorials up by next week that will cover:

Setting up a development environment under mac os x
Building a Zend Framework project from scratch using PDT
Handling parameters and PostBack using Zend_Controller
Working with Zend_Layout: using placeholders for just-in-time content injection