Zend Framework in Action

Guillaume Rossolini emailed me to let me know that the French PHP community site Developpez.com has published a review of the MEAP version of Zend Framework in Action.

The review is obviously all in French which unfortunately, I’m not a speaker of. Turning to Google Translate, I thought I’d see what the gist of it is and they are quite positive!

They conclude:

En conclusion, Zend Framework in Action est un bon livre pour découvrir l’ensemble des composants du framework et leur utilisation avancée. Pour les débutants, c’est un excellent complément aux tutoriels disponibles sur internet, permettant d’approfondir leur connaissance du Zend Framework.

which Google translates as:

In conclusion, Zend Framework in Action is a good book to discover all the components of the framework and use advanced. For beginners, this is an excellent complement to the tutorials available on the Internet, to deepen their knowledge of Zend Framework.

If you speak French then I highly recommend that you read the review and then stop by the rest of the site and see what they have to offer.

Posted by Rob on 31st August 2008 under Reviews & The Book | No Comments »

I thought I’d draw attention to the Resources page. I’ve recently updated the list of tutorials and have also added a link to the book Website Optimization by Andrew King as I’ve been finding his analyser on http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ useful.

If you know of any other resources that you think really should be there, then please let me know.

Posted by Rob on 25th August 2008 under News | No Comments »

Matthew Weier O’Phinney has posted an article entitled Zend Framework 1.6.0 Preview, or, PHP4 is Dead in which he picks out the new features of the upcoming version 1.6 of Zend Framework.

He looks at:

• Dojo integration
• Unit testing infrastructure
• Captcha support
• SOAP support
• FireBug support
• Pagination support

Go and have a read and drool over what’s coming our way!

Posted by Rob on 11th August 2008 under Around the web & News | No Comments »

Sudheer has posted an article over on LAMPComputing.com on how to Valdiate URIs in form fields by using a custom validator.

I came across a situation where I had to write a custom class to validate URIs. To write the custom URI validator I made use of Zend_Uri which aids in manipulating and validating Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). In particular I used Zend_Uri::check() function to validate the URI in question.

He then goes on to show how he created his validator class and how to use it with Zend_Form.

Posted by Rob on 8th August 2008 under Around the web & Tips and Tricks | 1 Comment »

We’re currently hard at work on the final round of editing the manuscript. It’s amazing how many details the technical proof reader and our copy editor have found. The book is going to be so much better as a result. We need to go through each suggestion though and ensure that the meaning hasn’t changed and to implement the suggested technical changes.

Lots of chapters to go, but I think you’ll be impressed by the improvements from the last MEAP.

Posted by Rob on 4th August 2008 under The Book | No Comments »