Dojo 1.8 / 1.9 on Zend Framework 1
Wednesday, May 15. 2013
I'm a big Dojo fan. Its loading system makes it really fast on front-end. Also Dojo integrates well with Zend Framework.
ZF 1 is being phased out, but I haven't found the time to migrate into version 2 yet. Meanwhile Dojo / Dijit / Dojox will get updates, but they're not being compensated into ZF 1.
Here is my Zend Framework 1 patch to make Dijit components AMD-loading compatible. It makes Zend Framework Dijit-modules to use the slash-notation in paths. Especially in Dojo 1.9 using dots will yield errors like:
mixin #1 is not a callable constructor.
or
base class is not a callable constructor.
The errors vary depending of what you're calling. Pretty much your JavaScript ceases to execute. The problem comes from the fact that Dijit does not function exactly the same way it used to do before 1.9.
Failing example:
<div data-dojo-type="dijit.MenuSeparator"></div>
Working example:
<div data-dojo-type="dijit/MenuSeparator"></div>
The difference is minimal, but makes everything tick again.
