Zend Framework in Action

Version 1.7.3 of Zend Framework has been released. This is a maintenance release and lots of issues have been fixed.

You can download it from the Zend Framework website. The links at the bottom of the page are direct downloads if you don’t have a Zend account.

32 issues have been fixed in this maintenance release. The highlights for me are:

• ZF-3239: ‘From’ table not available in $_parts in Zend_Db_Table_Select
• ZF-2624: Message-ID getter/setter in Zend_Mail
• ZF-5352: To,Cc,Bcc email fields injection in Zend_Mail
• ZF-2559: Email subject encoding bug in Zend_Mail

As you can tell, I’ve been using Zend_Mail recently! There’s also been some useful JQuery bug fixes if you use that.

Posted by Rob on 20th January 2009 under News | Comments Off

Pádraic Brady has been posting a 3(ish) part series all about page caching with Zend Framework:

Page Caching is the process of caching entire generated HTML documents for a period of time so that the expensive task of dynamically generating them is avoided for that period. Done correctly, it should completely bypass the Zend Framework MVC stack. This can net you incredible results!

It’s a long read, but very well worth it.

Posted by Rob on 19th January 2009 under Around the web | Comments Off

Ralph Schindler has created a semi-official PEAR channel for Zend Framework.

If you like installing via PEAR, then check out pear.zfcanvas.org.

Posted by Rob on 9th January 2009 under Around the web & News | Comments Off

The folks at Manning have started the New Year with a 31% discount if you use the coupon code ja1331. Why not buy a copy of Zend Framework in Action, PHP in Action or jQuery in Action and save some money?!

I probably won’t bother posting all the great ways you can save with Manning though, so if you want to keep up, consider subscribing to their newsletter.

Posted by Rob on 7th January 2009 under Around the web | Comments Off