Comments on: Export Excel Spreadsheets using Zend Framework

By: David Mintz

David Mintz — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:09:10 +0000

ligera corrección a lo antedicho:; “me estaba costando trabajo entender…”

By: David Mintz

David Mintz — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:07:06 +0000

Primero que nada, un saludo fraternal desde Nueva York, de parte de este servidor, gringo pero hispanohablante. Este ejemplo fue una gran ayuda, que me estaba costando trabajando entender la sintáxis de addContext() versus addActionContext() para crear un llamado custom context. La documentación oficial es un poco opaco (en nuestra humilde opinion por supuesto).

El caso mío es sencillo: quiero que el servidor, cuando reciba un ajax request, devuela javascript para ser evaluado por el cliente (a la manera de Prototype).

$contextSwitch->addContext(‘js’,array(
‘suffix’ => ‘js’,
‘headers’ => array(‘Content-type’ => ‘application/javascript’)
))
->addActionContext(‘ajaxtest’,'js’)
->initContext();

By: Federico Cargnelutti (fedecarg) 's status on Friday, 09-Oct-09 11:03:18 UTC - Identi.ca

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:03:27 +0000

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By: Brett Kromkamp

Brett Kromkamp — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:55:29 +0000

I have developed a topic map-based site/application with the Zend Framework: http://www.quesucede.com... the Zend Framework proved to be extremely productive and relatively simple to use.

By: RobertP

RobertP — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:30:19 +0000

Nice. I’m not sure, if I like the placement of the excel-generation inside the view-layer, but I guess it is the better way… I use Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer from within a generation-class placed in the library/ which appears somehow more naturaly to me, but as I said – it might be better to stick to good old MVC…

By: Pablo Viquez

Pablo Viquez — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:02:38 +0000

@filip, GemBox.Spreadsheet does not apply since it’s for .NET and not PHP. The license is $480 so it’s pretty expensive for something you can do for free using an open source implementation (the PEAR module for example)

By: Pablo Viquez

Pablo Viquez — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:59:38 +0000

@ Bryan, thanks for the heads up, just updated the code, and yes, it’s not required since the parent method is empty. I actually though on not putting it, however at the end I did it in order to be consistent. Thanks

By: filip

filip — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:16:09 +0000

For exporting data to Excel I recommend GemBox.Spreadsheet. I’ve been using it for years and it’s very easy to work with and very fast. Definitely worth a look.
http://www.gemboxsoftware.com/GBSpreadsheet.htm

By: Zend Framework University — Blog — Export Excel Spreadsheets using Zend Framework and Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:23:01 +0000

[...] the new post on his blog, Pablo Viquez writes about exporting data to Excel spreadsheet using Zend Framework and Spreadcheet_Excel_Writer (PEAR component). Most interesting part of article, at least for me, [...]

By: Bryan Zarzuela

Bryan Zarzuela — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:18:42 +0000

In your first example, I think you meant parent::init().

Either way, you don’t need to call that since you’re inheriting from Zend_Controller_Action. init() is stubbed out for you to write your own initialization code for your Action Controller.