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Zend Framework 1.6 Now Available

September 2, 2008

News, Zend Framework

p. That right, fire up those down-loaders and grab your headlamp and pick-axe. There’s fresh code to be had for the taking!

p. **The Important Bits:**
You can download Zend Framework 1.6 here “Zend Framework Download Page”:http://framework.zend.com/download/current/.

p. **The Details:**
Zend Framework 1.6 is now available and a significant upgrade in several areas. The buzz is already starting to make it’s way around the web as both “Andi Gutmans”:http://andigutmans.blogspot.com/2008/09/zend-framework-16-featuring-dojo-soap.html and “InfoWorld”:http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/02/Zend_mixing_PHP_AJAX_for_RIAs_1.html have already covered the new release. I’m sure as the code gets out there and people start playing with it, more posts will be forthcoming.

p. This version of Zend Framework gives developers a few new tools for their ever expanding toolbox.

  • Zend_Tool
  • Lucene 2.3 Index File Format Support
  • Zend_Session save handler for Database Tables
  • Paginator Component
  • Figlet Support
  • ReCaptcha Service
  • Captcha Form Element
  • Zend_Config_Xml Attribute Support
  • Zend_File_Transfer Component
  • File Upload Form Element
  • Zend_Wildfire Component with FireBug Log Writer

p. Other features have been added and a whopping 287 tickets closed as Zend Framework continues to mature and establish itself as the premier framework for PHP development.

h2. Zend Framework documentation now available as a PDF

p. If you’ve been thinking of getting into Zend Framework but haven’t yet taken the plunge OR if you’ve ever wanted the entire Zend Framework manual then you are really going to like this bit. The entire manual has been published into a PDF. To get it you have to visit “zend.com”:http://www.zend.com/community/downloads (free registration required) and download it. It’s 4.4MB of Zend Framework goodness ready for you to keep on your desktop or load on your favorite portable e-book reader and keep it as a handy reference.

p. So help bring the servers to their knees, grab your copy of Zend Framework 1.6 today and start adding even more awesomeness to your applications!

About Cal Evans

Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We're using the term "computer" loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PC's. For the past 10 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built on a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of "management by wandering around". Cal is currently based in Nashville, TN and is gainfully unemployed as the Chief Marketing Officer of Blue Parabola, LLC. Cal is happily married to wife 1.28, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 kids who were both bright enough not to pursue a career in IT. Cal blogs at http://blog.calevans.com and is the founder and host of Day Camp 4 Developers

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13 Responses to “Zend Framework 1.6 Now Available”

  1. nelius Says:
    September 2, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    Congrats for getting the release out.

    I’ll try to upgrade our project to it tomorrow!

    cu
    Cornelius / Tine 2.0
    http://www.tine20.org

  2. 3eus_ru Says:
    September 2, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    good job! )

    thank you!

  3. ericclemmons Says:
    September 2, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    I’ve been using the 1.6rc for a while, simply for the WildFire component, which is superb.

    Looking forward to complete tutorials on Zend_Test for unit testing beginners.

  4. mcloide Says:
    September 3, 2008 at 1:13 am

    Alright! Now with pagination and session database handler. More fun.

    http://mcloide.wordpress.com

  5. pracucci Says:
    September 3, 2008 at 7:16 am

    You’ve done a good work right now and I’m happy that Zend Framework 1.6 is stable now. The way to the top is every day closer.

    Marco Pracucci
    http://blog.pracucci.com

  6. sudheerboss Says:
    September 3, 2008 at 10:41 am

    Congratulations. I will look forward for 1.6.1 and 1.7 releases soon.

  7. jitka_sunny Says:
    September 3, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    why?

  8. jdunmore Says:
    September 5, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    As per my un-answered comment in the RC1 blog entry – where is your email subscription list for notifications?!

    I reckon 90% of people out there would want this – a simple email subscription service that tells you when a new release is available – plenty of other people do it.

    Still, looking forward to trying out 1.6

  9. estigy Says:
    September 15, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    @jdunmore

    They have a great RSS feed for exactly for this. ;-)

  10. lsmith Says:
    September 29, 2008 at 8:11 am

    That I have to register to comment is unusual for an OSS project, but also not heard of and generally ok with me. Everybody takes different approaches to prevent spam. But to download the documentation in PDF one also needs to register? Thats just taking the marketing a bit too far.

  11. jdunmore Says:
    September 29, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    Sorry, but I don’t have the time or inclination to review an RSS feed periodically in the hope that one of the items will be notification of a new version.

    All major software projects worth their weight have email announcement lists, why should we adhere to a different set of rules for Zend and check an RSS feed?

  12. chidera Says:
    October 1, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    Hi,

    I have to agree with jdunmore. Although I visit this site quite often, it typically seems that a new release is made available at times when I don’t visit for a few days. As was already stated, a simple email notification would be great. I’d rather not have to poll…and since I love to see new updates to ZF, finding out that it’s been out for a few days is quite annoying.

    That’s my two cents….

  13. jdunmore Says:
    October 3, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    Hi,

    I accidentally stumbled across this:

    http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV/Contributing+to+Zend+Framework#ContributingtoZendFramework-Subscribetotheappropriatemailinglists

    So it does exist, just not widely advertised – think it would be helpful to put this link on this blog posts.