It turns out that Manning, the publisher of Zend Framework in Action is on Twitter!
It also turns out that they’ve put up a sample of the book on Scribed! Check out the book, then order it, remembering to use the coupon code scribd25…
Zend Framework 1.7.5 as been released and there’s a security update in it.
The security announcement is:
The Zend Framework team has been notified of a potential Local File Inclusion (LFI) attack vector in Zend_View’s render() method. To address the issue, as of the 1.7.5 release the render() method no longer accepts paths that include parent directory traversal (e.g., “../” and “..\”) in the path argument. This introduces a regression in behavior which can be addressed by turning off the lfiProtectionOn flag. For more information, see:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.view.migration.html
If this advisory does not affect your applications, please disregard. We take security very seriously and will continue to notify all users when a security fault is discovered.
Matthew Weir O’Phinney has all the details about it if you are interested.
Download it now!
It occurs to me that we haven’t publicised the Author Online forums recently!
If you need any support on Zend Framework in Action, then you should try posting on the Author Online forums that are hosted by Manning. I’m fairly active in there and try to help out. Also, other readers may be able to help you or have already discussed your issue.
I’m pleased to be able to report that Zend Framework in Action is now available in print. I know this as my copies have arrived and here’s the picture to prove it:
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 !
Zend has recently created a certification for Zend Framework. This is a way to show that you know and can use Zend Framework and as a result the exam is fairly tough. It covers the entirety of the framework, so in order to pass, you need more than a passing acquaintance with it. Of course, I’m slightly biased as I helped to write it 
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.
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.
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:
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:
Let us know your thoughts on it over on the MEAP forum.
