Stuart Herbert, PHP community member and all around nice guy, has been posting a series of posts on his blog based on his PHPUK talk “Beyond Frameworks”. Given the number of posts involved, one must wonder when Stuart sleeps. Click on in, I’ve got links…

For those who haven’t put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you: Zend Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday of November (the 18th, 19th and 20th 2010), we’ll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

PHP is a great back-end for a lot of projects. However, these days, many projects aren’t using just HTML for their client side. Many projects are turning to Flex, Adobe’s Open Source framework built on top of ActionScript to build desk-top applications that talk to their PHP back-end systems. If you are using Flex to build AIR based desktop apps or browser based Flash apps, you probably want ot check out Adobe’s MAX conference. Click on in and I’ll give you links and pictures.

To further framework research and development, I've recently released a new PHP5.3+ framework: Jolt. While it is in a very alpha state, it does allow for quick application delivery. Most interesting about it is that it doesn't have the M in MVC – it lets you use your own ORM or ActiveRecord framework.

With all of the good things that frameworks can provide, there’s still some bad that can come with them. In this recent post from Developr.com Jayesh Kitukale mentions a few of these downfalls.

In his latest post Brandon Savage suggests that every developer should do one thing before they start working with PHP frameworks – write their own.

On the Symfony blog today Fabien Potencier answers the question “will Symfony 2.0 finally use PHP 5.3?”

Some best practices on how best to organize your project, when you are using Zend Framework. Specifically, just where should you be putting the Zend Framework Source Code? What differences about your specific application and environment would make you chose the various options that exist, such as putting in inside of your application, or up at the system/library level?

On the symfony blog Fabien Potencier has posted about the new “getting started” tutorial that’s been posted for the symfony 1.2 release of the framework.

By now, you are sure to have heard the news, Zend Framework 1.8 has landed.
With ZF 1.8 comes several new features such as Zend_Application,
Zend_Navigation, Zend_Tag_Cloud, and, my favorite Zend_Tool. Zend_Tool is
not a component in the typical sense. Most components have a class at its
top level namespace, Zend_Tool does not. Most components are generally
consumed inside your application code to simplify runtime tasks, Zend_Tool
does not. Zend_Tool is more akin to a framework than a component
– a framework within a framework.