Zend Framework in Action

Ralph Schindler has written and article on Zend_Tool and ZF 1.8 on devzone. In it he explains what Zend_Tool is and how to use it.

Instead of whipping together a system that was targeted specifically for creating ZF based applications, specifically on the command line, and strictly generating code and not modifying existing code, we set out to build a system extensible in every regard that should concern a developer. Zend_Tool was designed to facilitate abstraction at all the necessary points where we felt that developers would want to extend the system.

He then goes on to show what Zend_Tool can currently do using a series of screenshots.

Posted by Rob on 4th May 2009 under Around the web | Comments Off

Zend Framework 1.8, has been released!

From the read me, new features include:

• Zend_Tool, contributed by Ralph Schindler
• Zend_Application, contributed by Ben Scholzen and Matthew Weier O’Phinney
• Zend_Navigation, contributed by Robin Skoglund
• Zend_CodeGenerator, by Ralph Schindler
• Zend_Reflection, Ralph Schindler and Matthew Weier O’Phinney
• Zend Server backend for Zend_Cache, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
• Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2, contributed by Jon Whitcraft
• Zend_Service_Amazon_S3, Justin Plock and Stas Malyshev
• Zend_Filter_Encrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Zend_Filter_Decrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Support for file upload progress support in Zend_File_Transfer, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Translation-aware routes, contributed by Ben Scholzen
• Zend_Json expression support, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei and Oscar Reales
• Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei
• SOAP input and output header support, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
• Support for keyword field search using query strings, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
• Support for searching across multiple indexes in Zend_Search_Lucene, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
• Support for page scaling, shifting and skewing in Zend_Pdf, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
• Locale support in Zend_Validate_Int and Zend_Validate_Float, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Phonecode support in Zend_Locale, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Zend_Validate_Iban, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Zend_Validate_File_WordCount, contributed by Thomas Weidner

Download it here.

I have also completely revised and updated my Zend Framework tutorial over at akrabat.com to support the new Zend_Tool command line tool and Zend_Application for bootstrapping.

Posted by Rob on 1st May 2009 under News | 6 Comments »