If you use Zend Framework you probably used the initRoutes() function in your Initializer.php to create nice URI’s and creating some different routing in your application. To create a customized route for your application you can use the Zend_Controller_Router_Route class from the Zend Framework. If you use the common syntax you have to repeatedly build routes in code for all routes in your application. This makes it not maintainable for programmers. To fix this problem we are going to use a XML file with all routing information.

Michelangelo van Dam has a new post to his blog today looking a a method for doing some context switching in his Zend Framework application to use jQuery in his app’s static HTML output.

Matthew wrote up an article on modules in Zend_Application and that got me thinking a little bit. When I have done training for Zend Framework, one of the things that mystifies students to some extent is the whole plugin architecture and where things can go. There has been several articles written about it, but they tend to use code to describe it. I was only able to find a small handfull of articles that used some kind of chart to describe what goes on. Not that that’s a problem, but I had found that when I drew out the request lifecycle that it helped the students understand it better.

p. This is the home stretch toward 1.0! Everyone has worked very hard for many months, and we are very close to finishing what we set out to do with Zend Framework 1.0. This Release Candidate is intended to show the complete set of features Zend Framework 1.0 has. Following the final 1.0 release, Zend Framework will continue to grow and improve, but there will be a great emphasis on maintaining backward-compatibility. That has been the mission of Zend Framework from the beginning, to provide a professional web framework with quality and stability.

One of my roles at Zend is as a Zend Framework developer, and as such, I’m
the lead developer on the MVC components. Yesterday, I committed a change to
core in preparation for the 1.0.0RC1 release that, while breaking backwards
compatability slightly, will also greatly simplify the integration between
the controller and view components.

p. This is an update to the Zend Framework Beta Release. The Zend Framework developers have been working very hard to improve the quality every week, and this Beta Refresh release includes their efforts so far. There have been 77 issues fixed since 0.9.2.

p. Aleksey Zapparov has a new post on his blog about the Zend Framework and specifically Zend_Controller. Let’s grab our shovels and dig into it, shall we?

p. Alexander Netkachev has written a new article that discovers the Zend_Controller_Plugin class and shows a couple of examples on how to use it. Click on inside for more details, links and other things I can cut and paste.

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p. ! Jason Gilmore, Editorial Director for Apress Open Source and author of three books, shows you how you too can track his book’s popularity on Amazon. Ok so he also shows you how he used the Zend Framework to build his mashup too.