Zend Framework in Action e-book is released

The final e-book for Zend Framework in Action has been released to MEAP subscribers. You should have received an email with a download link.

I hope you like it !

Posted by Rob on 9th December 2008 under The Book | 26 Comments »

26 Responses to “Zend Framework in Action e-book is released”

  1. Tom responded on 09 Dec 2008 at 9:51 am #

    Sure thing! Already downloaded :-)

    Thanks

  2. tecnico responded on 09 Dec 2008 at 9:55 am #

    I haven’t received any download link :(

  3. Mojonvolador responded on 09 Dec 2008 at 1:45 pm #

    i got my shiny and new pdf :)

  4. Serendipity responded on 09 Dec 2008 at 9:19 pm #

    Excuse me, how can I become a MEAP subscribers?

  5. Nick responded on 09 Dec 2008 at 10:17 pm #

    Serendipity: You can order the book here:

    http://www.manning.com/allen/

  6. tmth responded on 14 Dec 2008 at 4:13 pm #

    The day i read some of the tutorials from akrabat, i knew i had to order this book to get more. So i pre-ordered. Got the real thing at last! Will start reading it over the Christmas holidays (what a great present this is :D ).

    Just a quick question. Does everything in the book work the same way in 1.7? If it does are there any examples that, even though they work in 1.7 there is a new/better way to do so and i will have to re-learn some things?

    Thank you so much for the wonderful book.

  7. Rob responded on 14 Dec 2008 at 5:26 pm #

    tmth,

    All the code in the book works with 1.7. The most significant area missing from the book is coverage of the Dojo components.

    Regards,

    Rob…

  8. Ralf Siepker responded on 17 Dec 2008 at 7:47 am #

    Hello Rob,

    what to do, if we dont received the download-link? Writing three times at support@manning.com was not successful, didn’t get an answer. Also posting in Manning ZFiA-Forum was unsuccessful, also didn’t get an answer. We ordered the MEAP version as also the softbook. But I like to read the final version over christmas. :-)

    Many thanks in advance. Ralf, cows online

  9. Rob responded on 17 Dec 2008 at 10:09 am #

    Ralf,

    I’ve forwarded your comment to my contact at Manning.

    Regards,

    Rob…

  10. Ralf Siepker responded on 17 Dec 2008 at 3:12 pm #

    Dear Rob,

    many thanks for your help, I received it a few minutes ago and I’m happy that I have a lot to read over the free christmas time.

    bye, Ralf

  11. colleen dick responded on 18 Dec 2008 at 7:33 pm #

    Hello I preordered this book and I am very anxious to have it. A friend put me on to this URL. Am I not entitled to a PDF preview as these comments seem to indicate and if so how do I get it?

  12. ML responded on 27 Dec 2008 at 9:31 pm #

    Dear Rob,

    I have the same problems with contacting Manning as Ralf, I have not received the link. Could you please help me with issueing the link to the new ebook version.

    Regards ML

  13. Steven responded on 29 Dec 2008 at 5:49 pm #

    Hi Rob,

    I received the e-book when it came out and am mostly finished. Just wanted to say thank you for the book and that it was useful and worth recommending to colleagues.

  14. Rob responded on 29 Dec 2008 at 6:18 pm #

    Colleen,

    Sorry, I do not know what you have ordered. I suggest talking to Manning.

    ML,

    I’ve forwarded you message to Manning.

    Steven,

    Thanks :)

    Rob…

  15. Aaron Holmes responded on 11 Jan 2009 at 12:55 am #

    Nice book Rob, I’ve made it through the initial third or so and have learned a few tricks.

    Unfortunately though, I had a hard drive failure within a week of purchasing and lost the ebook version. I’ve emailed Manning several times and haven’t heard back (seems like I’m not alone). Could you also mention this to your contact? If I have to re-purchase I will, but this will surely be the last penny Manning will ever see from me.

    I mention it to you here only because a) I’ve exhausted all other avenues without any sort of reply and b) I don’t think that poor customer service like this is fair for the authors of the books Manning publishes.

    At any rate, there may not be too much you can do and I understand that. I mostly just wanted to say think you for the good reading.

    Cheers, Aaron

  16. Colleen responded on 11 Jan 2009 at 1:11 am #

    P. 105!!! there is direct SQL code inside a controller method!!!! ack pls explain. Our shop has a strict policy that all sql stuff goes in Model. Pls explain or discuss. Do you make an exception for Ajax calls?? I know previously I handled those as kind of a separate thing, only cuz the lib I was using previously for ajax didnt have a way to call an object and I was in PHP4, bla bla bla. Thank God those days are over. Otherwise REALLY liking the fact that the book builds a semi-realistic web app, not just a lot of foo bar examples that exercise only one thing with as little context as possible.

  17. Colleen responded on 11 Jan 2009 at 6:28 am #

    Help! My index view script is just NOT ADDING javascripts to the head. I’m doing the ajax stuff in chapter 5 but just for fun I wanna use dojo instead of YUI. So here is my views/scripts/place/index.phtml

    headScript()->appendFile(“http://o.aolcdn.com/dojo/1.1/dojo/dojo.xd.js”); $this->headScript()->appendFile($this->baseUrl().’/js/review_feedback.js’); ?>

    escape($this->title);?>

    escape($this->displayAddress($this->place)));?>

    Reviews

    reviews)) : ?>

    partialLoop(‘/place/_reviewItem.phtml’,$this->reviews) ?>

    The page LOOKS fine, but it’s JUST NOT DOIN’ the headScript! when I look at the source the Javascripts are NOT being sucked in so of course it pops up an error when you try to do the little ajax thingie. Please help!

  18. Rob responded on 11 Jan 2009 at 9:15 am #

    Aaron,

    I’ve forwarded your comment to my contact in Manning.

    Colleen,

    You are seeing one of the tensions when writing a book. Yes the SQL really should be in a separate method within the model, but that would have distracted from the discussion on Ajax as I discussed the model.

    Regards,

    Rob…

  19. Rob responded on 11 Jan 2009 at 9:18 am #

    Colleen,

    Are you echoing out the headScript() in your layout view file?

    Regards,

    Rob…

  20. Colleen responded on 11 Jan 2009 at 5:31 pm #

    Thanks for your quick response Rob. I knew I was leaving something out — still learning the ropes. I am trying to actually build this, not just copy code, because the latter way you don’t learn. Thanks!

  21. Colleen responded on 11 Jan 2009 at 5:47 pm #

    I’m now wondering how you use the headScript function to add a custom attribute to a script tag. Like mine may need to have djConfig = inside the script tag. I’ll dig.

  22. Colleen responded on 11 Jan 2009 at 7:24 pm #

    OK I found how to do attributes. Where is best place to put allow arbitrary attributes thingie, I put it in the main layout even though I think that’s the LAST thing to render, but it seems to be working to suppress the plain json security warning.

    However, now it’s telling me I need advert.json.phtml when I click the Yes link for was this review useful. I’m confused. That’s not supposed to be json and it has nothing to do with this. ???

  23. Erdal YAZICIOGLU responded on 14 Feb 2009 at 3:20 pm #

    Hello Rob,

    Thank you for the nice jon you have done. My only question is why the source code and the book code is different. For example, I read up to the 4th Chapter and the codes are different. I mean there are lots of extra coding in source code..

    Best Regards

  24. mack responded on 16 Feb 2009 at 9:38 pm #

    I am downloading the code from manning website and seems to be a bug in the source code. While extracting the file on vista and redhat linux I do not receive all the folders with each chapter in the book. On Redhat linux 5 and Microsoft Vista I unzip the file and receive chapters 1-9 and 15, I also get the appendix chapters but do not receive the code for the other chapters.

    Also has the pdf book been upgraded from the printed book because you cannot code as the book tells you in the examples. I have found this out the hardway and came across another programmer with the same problem. I finally got fed up and downloaded the souce code from chapter 5 and uploaded it to my webserver and it worked perfectly. Thank goodness for bloggs. Question? Does the pdf document fix these issues where I can follow page by page and code the site into a complete project.

  25. Benjamin responded on 02 Mar 2009 at 11:30 am #

    Mack how did you get your hands on the source code for chapter 5. The source code package I have ends at chapter 4.

  26. Rob responded on 04 Mar 2009 at 8:33 am #

    Benjamin,

    The code is at http://www.manning.com/allen/

    Regards,

    Rob…