Need some inspiration
 

Hi all,

I've not got much real work on next week so I figured that this would be the perfet time to continue playing / learning the Zend Framework.

Unfortunately... I'm struggling to come up with some ideas for applications to write using ZF.

Despire staring at Hotscripts.com for the past hour I'm still idea-less :-(

If anyone has ideas for an application that I can knock up next week, please share :-) If the application requires little HTML then all the better - I'd rather spend the week writing PHP than HTML :-)

Alan

How about something that outputs chocolate ice cream? No?

:-P

On a serious note, Chimpan-a to Chimpan-z... w00t!

Lol, sorry.

Now when you say "applications" I'm assuming you just mean any common PHP application, but built with the Zend Framework. Why not try something like a poll or 5 * rating application, because they involve things along the lines of using math.

I'm unfamiliar with the Zend Framework, so if an "application" in Zend is something different, then I'm afraid I am no help :-p

If that doesn't tickle you, then why not just write some more articles/tutorials about it on the forum? I read your Input Checking article and I liked it, it made Zend look easy to learn.

If I had a script that could do that you wouldn't see me on here much :-D

Yep - by application I just mean a script / website / etc written with PHP / Zend Framework.

Math is for people who didn't get an E in their Maths GCSE 12 years ago :-D

Glad to hear :-) I've got a couple of tutorials on other components in the Zend Framework on the go, will probably be finished next week at some point, waiting for Zend to release the v1.5 preview release on the 24th :-)

Alan

Output:

Lol

gief chocolate ice cream!

Sorry Alan, I've turned your thread into a chocolate frenzy! :-P

Back on topic
Urm... what about something to do with Pagination?

Friend of mine used to try and come up with new ways to do player stats for gaming tournaments. Not just new ways to display the usual win-loss-tie kind of stuff. He actually came up with his own kind of stats and scoring systems. All the data came from reported results from players (submitted via website, which goes into the mysql db), then on each page that showed scoring, he'd code it to do the proper math and simply output that.

It was just cool to work with him because of this way he would think about things. Learned a lot about approaching projects with fresh ideas and such.

Anyway, dunno if that was inspiring at all but I tried. =P

Thanks for the ideas guys :-)

I've decided to make my life a little bit easier by writing a "Zend Framework Application Framework" generator - ie, a script that when given the information (module names, controller names, actions, models, etc) will generate the code, bootstrap, htaccess, folder structure, default views, etc then zip it up in a nice little package.

Sort of a quick-start pack for when I write future applications :-)

Alan

Damn, I was JUST gonna mention that you should do something like that... ah well, you beat me to it.

/Sarcasm

I was going to suggest an easy caching script - partly cos I am looking into one myself *blush*

Have fun!