http://devzone.zend.com/ advancing the art of PHP. Best practices, samples, articles, news, and community for PHP 4, PHP 5, and beyond. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:16:38 -0700 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:16:38 -0700 http://devzone.zend.com/tag/zend%20framework/format/rss2.0 en-us http://devzone.zend.com/ http://devzone.zend.com/images/devzone_logo4.gif Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:16:38 -0700 The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 1.8.4 release. This release is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.8 series. Over 50 issues have been resolved for this release, covering 20 different components. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4766-Zend-Framework-1.8.4-Released http://devzone.zend.com/article/4766-Zend-Framework-1.8.4-Released Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:48:28 -0700 You’ve probably heard about ‘the cloud’. It’s the latest buzzword circulating in Silicon Valley and beyond. In some ways, ‘cloud’ is a fitting name- everyone sees something different when they look at it. For example, offerings as dissimilar as force.com and Amazon’s MapReduce service have worked their way in to ‘the cloud’ moniker at some point. Even the cloud’s biggest advocates can’t agree on what ‘the cloud’ is. But in teasing the facts out of all the hype, you’ll find some services that could change how you write and deploy your PHP applications forever. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4750-PHPs-Forecast-Partly-Cloudy http://devzone.zend.com/article/4750-PHPs-Forecast-Partly-Cloudy Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:03:14 -0700 On his blog, Jeroen Keppens writes about his love of modular design philosophies, and how one can do modular based design, using Zend Framework and Zend_Tool http://devzone.zend.com/article/4747-Jeroen-Keppens-on-Creating-a-modular-application-with-Zend-Framework http://devzone.zend.com/article/4747-Jeroen-Keppens-on-Creating-a-modular-application-with-Zend-Framework Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:09:35 -0700 New on his blog today Benjamin Eberlei has posted his own look at dependency injection containers in PHP applications, specifically with the Zend_Application component of the Zend Framework . http://devzone.zend.com/article/4746-Benjamin-Eberleis-Blog-Using-a-Dependency-Injection-Container-with-Zend_Application http://devzone.zend.com/article/4746-Benjamin-Eberleis-Blog-Using-a-Dependency-Injection-Container-with-Zend_Application Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:24:11 -0700 The recent release of Adobe Flash Builder 4 Beta (formerly Adobe Flex Builder) includes an impressive lineup of features aimed at enterprise PHP development, in large part because of a partnership with Zend & Zend Framework. This tutorial will describe how to use the new data-centric features of Flash Builder for PHP development. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4705-Data-centric-Adobe-Flash-Builder-development-with-the-Zend-Framework http://devzone.zend.com/article/4705-Data-centric-Adobe-Flash-Builder-development-with-the-Zend-Framework Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:54:12 -0700 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? http://devzone.zend.com/article/4683-Zend-Framework---Location-Location-Location http://devzone.zend.com/article/4683-Zend-Framework---Location-Location-Location Fri, 29 May 2009 12:32:00 -0700 New on his blog today Wenbert Del Rosario has posted a tutorial about getting the Zend_Navigation helper to work in your application and correctly handle making/updating breadcrumbs as you navigate around the site. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4686-Wenbert-Del-Rosarios-Blog-Zend-Framework-Making-the-Built-in-Breadcrumb-Helper-Work http://devzone.zend.com/article/4686-Wenbert-Del-Rosarios-Blog-Zend-Framework-Making-the-Built-in-Breadcrumb-Helper-Work Wed, 27 May 2009 13:15:16 -0700 The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 1.8.2 release. This release is the second maintenance release in the 1.8 series. Fixes for this release focus on Zend_Db and autoloading improvements. In all, over 50 issues were closed for the release. You may download it from the Zend Framework site . http://devzone.zend.com/article/4675-Zend-Framework-1.8.2-Released http://devzone.zend.com/article/4675-Zend-Framework-1.8.2-Released Wed, 20 May 2009 15:46:03 -0700 Web services are software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Nowadays if you want to connect external systems, you probably want or have to use web services. What I will discuss here is how to get your own SOAP web service up in minutes. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4655-Quickstart-web-services-with-SOAP-and-Zend-Framework http://devzone.zend.com/article/4655-Quickstart-web-services-with-SOAP-and-Zend-Framework Fri, 15 May 2009 13:46:28 -0700 In this recent post to his blog Madarco shows how to create a simple Facebook application using the Zend Framework as the backend. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4638-Madarcos-Blog-Build-a-Facebook-application-with-Zend-Framework http://devzone.zend.com/article/4638-Madarcos-Blog-Build-a-Facebook-application-with-Zend-Framework Wed, 13 May 2009 07:35:10 -0700 The Zend Framework team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Zend Framework 1.8.1, the first maintenance release in the 1.8 series. You can download it via our downloads page ; Use the CDN link for fast downloads, or scroll down the page for direct downloads of the 1.8.1 packages from the ZF servers. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4620-Zend-Framework-1.8.1-Released http://devzone.zend.com/article/4620-Zend-Framework-1.8.1-Released Tue, 12 May 2009 07:06:07 -0700 Polley Wong translated Zend Framework's dispatch process into an easy-to-read workflow diagram. Stepping through the critical steps of the dispatch process, you'll understand the relation between Front Controller, Dispacther, Helper, and Broker. You'll also have a good picture of what role they play and why they are there. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4601-Zend-Framework-Dispatch-Workflow-Diagram http://devzone.zend.com/article/4601-Zend-Framework-Dispatch-Workflow-Diagram Mon, 11 May 2009 03:51:37 -0700 On Oren Solomianik’s blog, he describes how to create a browser based database admin with the power of Zend_Db_Table and a few lines of code. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4603-A-short-and-simple-database-admin-using-Zend_Db_Table http://devzone.zend.com/article/4603-A-short-and-simple-database-admin-using-Zend_Db_Table Fri, 08 May 2009 07:45:34 -0700 Ben Scholzen has blogged about how to create powerful configuration files with the help of PHP arrays and the Zend_Config component of the Zend Framework. He shows simple code examples and also provides the source code of a real-world case. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4597-Writing-powerful-and-easy-config-files-with-PHP-arrays http://devzone.zend.com/article/4597-Writing-powerful-and-easy-config-files-with-PHP-arrays Wed, 06 May 2009 12:46:10 -0700 PHP Abstract is back! In this episode I interview Matthew Weier O’Phinney, recently promoted to Project Lead of Zend Framework for Zend Technologies, to find out about all the new features in Zend Framework 1.8. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4587-PHP-Abstract-Podcast-Episode-41-Zend-Framework-1.8 http://devzone.zend.com/article/4587-PHP-Abstract-Podcast-Episode-41-Zend-Framework-1.8 Mon, 04 May 2009 11:24:04 -0700 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. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4559-Zend_Tool-and-ZF-1.8 http://devzone.zend.com/article/4559-Zend_Tool-and-ZF-1.8 Fri, 01 May 2009 07:56:03 -0700 Ben Scholzen, author of Zend_Tag has recorded a screencast to feature the new component. He details the new feature in common use cases, and even in a console application. He also covers using the built in decorators, and how to extend and write your own. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4538-Zend_Tag_Cloud-Screencast http://devzone.zend.com/article/4538-Zend_Tag_Cloud-Screencast Fri, 01 May 2009 06:13:40 -0700 In this article, I'll discuss the development and features of Zend_Loader_Autoloader and its related functionality. However, the main point of the article is to show the various concerns and design decisions that go into developing a comprehensive autoloading solution for your PHP applications. Autoloading, while seemingly a trivial optimization task, has many facets that are often overlooked. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4525-Developing-a-Comprehensive-Autoloader http://devzone.zend.com/article/4525-Developing-a-Comprehensive-Autoloader Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:25:52 -0700 I'm pleased to announce the Zend Framework 1.8.0 release, the first in our 1.8 series of releases. This release marks the culmination of several long-standing projects, as well as a formalization of many of our recommended practices. There are two major stories in this release: first, the addition of several components designed to provide and promote Rapid Application Development; second, two offerings that make using Zend Framework in the cloud easier. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4524-Zend-Framework-1.8.0-Released http://devzone.zend.com/article/4524-Zend-Framework-1.8.0-Released Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:20:05 -0700 As multi-lingual web sites become more and more important, I would like to show two possible ways how to translate static text snippets in your application with Zend Framework. Zend Framework provides us with several packages like Zend_Locale and Zend_Translate to make developer’s life easier – but how to put these components together? http://devzone.zend.com/article/4513-Zend-Framework-and-Translation http://devzone.zend.com/article/4513-Zend-Framework-and-Translation