This is a first try to implement Zend Authentication with Zend Acl under ZF2. I used the EventManager to catch the MVC preDispatch Event so that I can evaluate if the user has or not permission for the requested page.

I have done a little Performance test for the 3 different methods available in PHP for XML generation. For this test I wrote a little script which generates the same XML File using the different methods.

At work we started using Zendstudio, as the installation on our Linux Boxes is global, we can’t edit the ZendStudio.ini, and the only way to specify our custom username for Code Templates is using the commandline arguments. The easiest way is to create a shell script to start ZendStudio:

I recently have began to use Netbeans because I’m sad that Eclipse is every time slower and it frozes every time when you are doing something to fast.

After trying very different IDE and many Eclipse IDE flawors, this is the best configuration I have found, and all the components are free.