Summary: <p>Reporting with Zend_Tool and Zend_Log</p> <p>This video uses a collection of powerful PHP libraries in order to illustrate how easy it really is to build a command-line tool for reporting against XML files. We start off by logging visitor statistics in the controller into a log file with Zend_Log. Once data has been collected, we’re then able to utilize SimpleXML, Zend_Date and the Zend_Tool component to build out a very simple reporting tool. This is of course just an example of what’s possible. What comes to mind for me is building a cron job for generating reports based on the zf.sh executable, or even just doing backups at the command-line with the help of a fully integrated Zend Framework installation.</p> <p>I’ve noticed that configuration information isn’t properly loaded into Zend_Tool and am still trying to figure out the design decisions there. You’ll notice that I was having some timezone issues with regards to Zend_Date and it seems that specifying a timezone in my application.ini file didn’t resolve the issue.</p> <p>Grab a <a href="http://zendcasts.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/zc54-reporting-with-zend-tool-and-zend-log/zc54-reporting-with-zend-tool-and-zend-log.zip">copy of the project</a> or <a href="http://code.google.com/p/zendcasts/source/browse/#svn/trunk/zc54-reporting-with-zend-tool-and-zend-log">browse the repository</a>.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p>
