In a new post to my blog, I discuss about integrating Symfony Dependency Injection Service Container with Zend Framework. Dependency Injection is an Inversion of Control specific pattern highly used and encouraged throughout Zend Framework implementation. A Dependency Injection container manages your services life-cycle, it is in charge of their instantiation, configuration and injection as shared instances: no more need to use static methods, singletons or factories for your services!

In a new post on the Rdavid.net blog there’s some discussion about Zend Framework models, the best approach and a “Service Class” idea.

I recently worked with PHP’s DOM XML extension while working on href="http://framework.zend.com/">Zend Framework’s
Zend_Search_Lucene HTML highlighting capabilities, and uncovered some
undocumented features and issues with the extension in regards to character
encoding. The information contained in this article should also apply to
other libxml-based DOM implementations, as PHP’s DOM extension simply wraps
that library.

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p. Andi Gutmans posts on his blog that the book “PHP 5 Power Programming” he co-wrote with Stig Bakken and Derick Rethans has surpassed one million downloads.

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p. Nick Lo has been a busy man of late. First a post for the child in all of us as Mr. Dizzy learns how not to program. Now he shows us how RewriteRouter and Zend_Config play together in applications built on the Zend Framework. Piqued your interest? Click [ more ].

p. Greg Szorc has a new entry in his blog where he shows you 4 things and a rant that you may not have know about PHP.

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p. How I do love the web. The web gives us the illusion of anonymity and the freedom to experiment with our inner demons. One such persona of note to the PHP community is Padraic Brady aka “Maugrim The Reaper”. Padraic posts on a variety of topics in his blog but never fails to inform or entertain. Let’s look at two of his recent posts.