Mats Lindh » Zend Framework

Patching Zend_OpenId To Maintain Error Messages

Mats — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:17:17 +0000

To help anyone else in their quest to implement Zend_OpenId in their code, I’ve created a small patch against trunk which adds error internal error messages in most places where there’s a return false;. This should help when debugging your code, both if you’re implementing an authentication service and use Zend_OpenId as a consumer or if you’re implementing just the consumer part of the equation.

I’ve uploaded the diff: Consumer.php.patch (Consumer.php.patch.txt).

The only thing that seemed a bit weird was that one of the error messages that were present in 1.6.0 had been removed in trunk:

if ($status != 200) {
this->_setError("'Dumb' signature verification HTTP request failed");
return false;
}

I’ve readded this message in my patch, but I feel that the error message should be something like:

$this->_setError("The server responded with HTTP status code: " . $status);

instead.

Oh well. Hopefully someone will find this useful.

Christer Goes Bug Hunting

Mats — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:28:48 +0000

Christer had the pleasure of hunting down a bug in Zend Framework a couple of days ago, and he has just posted a nice article about the bug in Zend MVC Components and how he debugged it. If you’ve never used a debugger before, this article is probably also going to be a bit helpful, and it gives a little insight into how the Zend Framework MVC-components work.

Using Objects with Zend_View’s PartialLoop Helper

Mats — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:28:13 +0000

Christer has obviously been having a good day today too, as he’s actually made yet ANOTHER blog post about something related to Zend Framework: Using Objects with Zend_View’s PartialLoop Helper. This time he’s examining why some methods suddenly has disappeared in his PartialLoop. I’m a bit surprised his father hasn’t helped him with his view scripts, tho. It’s probably just something he’s saying to don’t appear too incompetent.