http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com A book about the Zend Framework Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:43:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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: Chapter 16, Creating PDFs, has been significantly reworked to ... http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com/2008/06/21/new-zend-framework-in-action-meap/ Dagfinn Reiersøl, the author of PHP in Action, has recently posted an article about how to test a Zend Framework action controller. He uses SimpleTest, but the ideas will work equally well with PHPUnit if that's your preferred testing framework. It's a good read and once you've read it you should ... http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com/2008/06/11/php-in-action-shows-how-to-test-an-action-controller/ James at GM-RAM has posted an article called Producing a Feed Digest using Zend_Feed. In the article he talks about how Zend_Feed can be used to consume RSS and Atom feeds and produce a digest from them. He includes sample code that shows how to create a view helper that is ... http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com/2008/06/07/feed-digests-with-zend_feed/ According to news coming out from @media, the BBC will be using Zend Framework for the presentation layer for bbc.co.uk. Federico of PHP::Impact has more information here. The benefits of Zend Framework that have been identified are: Zend Framework’s extensive unit tests, required for all contributed code, mean that exact situations can be ... http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com/2008/06/04/bbc-will-be-using-zend-framework-in-the-future/ We're a bit late with this information but for the sake of completeness we have to echo the news that Zend Framework and the Dojo Javascript toolkit are now partners. Matthew Weier O'Phinney's post has some interesting code examples while Andi Gutman's post goes into more detail about the agreement itself. http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com/2008/05/22/zend-framework-and-dojo-sitting-in-a-tree/ Zend Framework 1.5.2 has been released. This is a bug fig release in the 1.5 series which fixes 50 issues. The list of all the issues that have been addressed with this release can be found on the issue tracker. http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com/2008/05/16/zend-framework-152-released/ It seems that A2 Hosting are now pre-installing Zend Framework. This will make deploying a Zend Framework application even easier! http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com/2008/05/05/a2-hosting-offer-zend-framework-hosting/ 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: Chapters 2 through 7 have been edited New chapter 8 (forms) New chapter 16 (PDFs) Far more source code released Let us know your thoughts ... http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com/2008/05/05/new-meap-pdf-released-2/ I know I've downloaded it a few times but the Zend April Newsletter is suggesting there must be a few more of you doing it too; Five million in fact! It's interesting that half of those downloads have been made in the last six months. If you consider that the more ... http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com/2008/04/29/zend-framework-hits-5-million-downloads/ Pádraic Brady has started a series of posts on his blog, building an example blog application. From part one: The series will culminate with a complete blogging solution for my personal needs. I'll cook it, bake it, beat it into submission, and then deploy it to replace this existing Serendipity installation. ... http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com/2008/04/23/an-example-zf-blog-application/