I am just keeping my leg in to Zend Framework.

Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase.

At the first step I faced several problems. Mainly the one was

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Exception' with message 'Invalid controller specified (error)' in C:\wamp\library\Zend\Controller\Dispatcher\Standard.php:241 Stack trace: #0 C:\wamp\library\Zend\Controller\Front.php(934):
 Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), 
Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http)) #1 C:\wamp\www\test\zendTest3\html\index.php(6): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch() #2 {main} thrown in C:\wamp\library\Zend\Controller\Dispatcher\Standard.php on line 241

This is what made me fedup on earlier step.

But with my trustful effort I managed to find out the reason why I am getting this error. It was mainly because of Path. The path to controllers directory. I guess it is because of the OS what I was using is Windows. Linux users might not get this problem. To overcome this problem, it is best practice to specify the path by calling current directory using the script as follows.

<?php
 
defined('APPLICATION_PATH')
or define('APPLICATION_PATH', dirname(__FILE__));
$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$frontController->setControllerDirectory(APPLICATION_PATH.'/controllers');

This is the best coding practice given by Zend. Never forget the standards.

Recently, I was facing a terrible bandwidth problem with my forum hosting provider. It was shared hosting which is built on Apache 2. You know, rewriting url work with the help of Apache RewriteEngine which is built on mod_rewrite module. Eventually, I had to change my hosting to a VPS solution. Also I prefered the lighthttpd server as my webserver as it is not heavy and taking less server resourses. Unfortunately I found tfSEO is not supporting lighthttpd as lighthttpd url-rewrite is different and it doesnt have htaccess file support. Ran around several forums. There were no solutions. At the end I refer to lighthttpd documentation and had to built my own url-rewrite. I like to share what I did tfSEO get back into work and it might be useful for some one who can face this in future.

The replaced code of tfSEO from htaccess to lighthttpd url-rewrite

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url.rewrite-once = (
"^/forum/([^/]+)/([^/]+)-([0-9]+)\/newpost.html$" => "/forum/showthread.php?t=$3&goto=newpost",
"^/forum/([^/]+)/([^/]+)-([0-9]+)\/$" => "/forum/showthread.php?t=$3",
"^/forum/f([0-9]+)\/$" => "/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=$1",
"^/forum/f([0-9]+)\/([a-z]+)([0-9]+).html$" => "/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$3",
"^/forum/([^/]+)/([^/]+)-t([0-9]+)/page([0-9]+).html$" => "/forum/showthread.php?t=$3&page=$4",
"^/forum/([^/]+)/([^/]+)-t([0-9]+)/page([0-9]+).html(&page)=([0-9]+)$" => "/forum/showthread.php?t=$3&page=$4",
"^/forum/([^/]+)/([^/]+)-t([0-9]+)/$"  => "/forum/showthread.php?t=$3",
"^/forum/f([^/]+)/([^/]+)-([0-9]+)\/post([0-9]+).html$" => "/forum/showpost.php?p=$4"
)

so on. This will work to VBulletin version 3.6.x and tfSEO version 1.1.3 in httpd webserver running on LXAdmin under Hyper VM.