Over on his blog, Jason Grimes has written a great tutorial on how to integrate Doctrine 2 into Zend Framework 2. His work is based on Rob Allen’s tutorial and is a great next step. Click on in and grab the URL.

Here at Zend we get a lot of good press for our products. We don’t want to turn DevZone into just a feed for those that write cool things about us, but some of these are helpful if you are considering using our products. So instead of flooding your feed with individual articles about how great the products are, occasionally we’ll post a roundup. That way they won’t get in your way, but there are here when you need them.

Want to check your file uploads with ClamAV? We’ve got a link to a tutorial to show you how.

There’s a new survey series worth checking out called the Zend Developer Pulse™. Zend is taking the pulse of developers regarding technology and career topics. Findings from the first survey, conducted online in Q4 2011, are available in a summary report. Zend received over 3,000 responses in 48 hours. Not bad. Take a peek at the report, and send your feedback to Zend.

Got your beta invite to phpcloud.com but not sure where to start. Read on, we’ll take a look at the concepts involved and the staps to take to not only get up and running quickly but to be productive in this interesting tool.

p. This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. These tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to embrace PHP 5, making parts of it suitable for those of you who already have worked with PHP 4 in the past.

As such, we will be reviewing proposals for any new components which proposers are confident can be completed in time [...]

Recently, the Zend Framework community has developed a new component for cloud services: Zend_Cloud_Infrastructure. This component was provided to manage [...]

The Zend Framework community is pleased to announce the immediate availability
of Zend Framework 2.0.0beta1. Packages and installation instructions are
available at:

http://packages.zendframework.com/

The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of Zend Framework’s
ALL ONES 1.11.11 release, the eleventh maintenance release in the 1.11 series.

1.11.11 includes around 30 bug fixes and may be downloaded from the Zend Framework site.