Release Candidate 1 of Zend Framework 1.6 is now available for download. DevZone have published an overview of the new features, the key ones being:
- Dojo integration
- SOAP client and server
- Unit testing harness for controllers
- Initial work on the tooling component
- Pagination component
- File upload component
- ReCapture service component
- Other stuff!
Grab a copy and test your applications - there’s bound to be bugs that need fixing before the main release!
Posted by Rob on 22nd July 2008 under News | 2 Comments »
A new Zend Framework in Action MEAP PDF has just been released. This version has the final manuscript before we head into production and fix the bugs in it, typeset it and turn it into printed pages.
The changes for this version are:
- Chapter 16, Creating PDFs, has been significantly reworked to include a running example.
- New appendix A, A whistle stop tour of PHP syntax, mainly intended for programmers coming from another language wanting a quick overview of PHP syntax.
- Tidy up of all chapters to fix styles and typos.
Posted by Rob on 21st June 2008 under The Book | 11 Comments »
Dagfinn Reiersøl, the author of PHP in Action, has recently posted an article about how to test a Zend Framework action controller. He uses SimpleTest, but the ideas will work equally well with PHPUnit if that’s your preferred testing framework.
It’s a good read and once you’ve read it you should buy his book!
Posted by Rob on 11th June 2008 under Around the web | 1 Comment »
James at GM-RAM has posted an article called Producing a Feed Digest using Zend_Feed. In the article he talks about how Zend_Feed can be used to consume RSS and Atom feeds and produce a digest from them.
He includes sample code that shows how to create a view helper that is responsible for retrieving the feeds and then creating the the HTML output.
I also recommend having a browse through his other articles about Zend Framework as clearly GM-RAM have been using ZF on quite a few projects.
Posted by Rob on 7th June 2008 under Around the web | 1 Comment »
According to news coming out from @media, the BBC will be using Zend Framework for the presentation layer for bbc.co.uk.
Federico of PHP::Impact has more information here.
The benefits of Zend Framework that have been identified are:
- Zend Framework’s extensive unit tests, required for all contributed code, mean that exact situations can be recreated and problems diagnosed and pinpointed.
- The high-quality implementation of the MVC web application architecture provides a foundation for all Zend Framework applications.
- Supports data adapters for all major databases.
- Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n).
- Authentication, authorization and session management.
- Web services.
- Ajax support.
- Security.
- A vast community of talented developers.
It’s good to see Zend Framework being used in more and more places.
Posted by Rob on 4th June 2008 under Around the web & News | No Comments »
We’re a bit late with this information but for the sake of completeness we have to echo the news that Zend Framework and the Dojo Javascript toolkit are now partners.
Matthew Weier O’Phinney’s post has some interesting code examples while Andi Gutman’s post goes into more detail about the agreement itself.
Posted by Nick on 22nd May 2008 under News | 2 Comments »
Zend Framework 1.5.2 has been released. This is a bug fig release in the 1.5 series which fixes 50 issues.
The list of all the issues that have been addressed with this release can be found on the issue tracker.
Posted by Rob on 16th May 2008 under News | 3 Comments »
It seems that A2 Hosting are now pre-installing Zend Framework.
This will make deploying a Zend Framework application even easier!
Posted by Rob on 5th May 2008 under Around the web | 3 Comments »
A new version of the Early Access PDF for Zend Framework in Action has been released. This is the first one with every chapter in it.
The biggest changes are:
- Chapters 2 through 7 have been edited
- New chapter 8 (forms)
- New chapter 16 (PDFs)
- Far more source code released
Let us know your thoughts on it over on the MEAP forum.
Posted by Rob on 5th May 2008 under The Book | 1 Comment »
I know I’ve downloaded it a few times but the Zend April Newsletter is suggesting there must be a few more of you doing it too; Five million in fact!
It’s interesting that half of those downloads have been made in the last six months. If you consider that the more feature-rich version 1.5 was only released recently, I’d be surprised if that download rate didn’t continue for a while yet. Hopefully long enough to have one or two people interested in our book?!
If downloads convert to adoption then clearly knowledge of Zend Framework is going to be useful for PHP developers. For early adopters it’s also hopefully an indication that the gamble we took on the framework was worth it.
Posted by Nick on 29th April 2008 under News | 2 Comments »
