Ryan Mauger wrote a good arti­cle on tidy­ing things behind the scenes, dur­ing devel­op­ment, def­i­nitely worth a look;
With Zend Frame­work there is an easy way to ensure that you always cre­ate valid HTML in your appli­ca­tions. This involves the use of a sim­ple Front Con­troller Plu­gin, and the php Tidy com­po­nent.
Valid HTML is impor­tant for a […]

A very com­mon ques­tion is how do I get a local­ized / trans­lated list of coun­tries, cur­ren­cies etc for a com­pany reg­is­tra­tion form or sim­i­lar.
Here is a easy to use sam­ple; For your cut’n’paste pleasure

Gojko Adzic wrote a GREAT arti­cles about a few very good points to take into con­sid­er­a­tion as you plan appli­ca­tion or infra­struc­ture deploy­ment on to the Cloud;
Dur­ing the last two years, I was involved in sev­eral projects deployed on the Ama­zon cloud. Being a rel­a­tively early adopter was a fan­tas­tic expe­ri­ence that pro­vided lots of opportunities […]

While pour­ing over some posts about Doc­trine I stum­bled upon a very nice solu­tion to the Cas­cad­ing Delete issue when using the Soft­Delete behav­iour on an Doc­trine Model. Here is what the guys at Elink Media writes;
I have been using Doc­trine ORM for a while now. Here I want to dis­cuss 2 tricky issues […]

Bradley Holt writes a good arti­cle about Front Con­troller Pat­terns; I recently gave a Zend Frame­work Intro­duc­tion pre­sen­ta­tion at our local PHP Users Group. I built a demo blog­ging appli­ca­tion called Postr that I used as an exam­ple through­out the pre­sen­ta­tion. There was way too much mate­r­ial to cover in the […]

Chris Hart­jes writes a very nice arti­cle about how to make (re)usable zend_forms; After search­ing around online for some exam­ples of build­ing sim­ple forms, I was dis­mayed to dis­cover there were two dif­fer­ent ways of build­ing the form. I could (a) do it the long way and cre­ate spe­cific instances of the form ele­ments using […]

On behalf of the Zend Frame­work team and the framework’s many con­trib­u­tors, I’m pleased to announce the imme­di­ate avail­abil­ity of the sta­ble release of Zend Frame­work 1.10.0. You can down­load it from our down­loads page:

Jon Leben­sold pub­lishes the sec­ond part of his series on using Doc­trine in com­bi­na­tion with Zend_Auth & Zend_Auth_Adaptor; Here’s the sec­ond part of my Doc­trine / Zend_Auth exam­ple. In 15 min­utes, we cre­ate a logout, login and pro­tected area that’s reliant on the ZC_Auth_Adapter adapter we cre­ated in last week’s video. Notice how […]

Jon Leben­sold pub­lishes another install­ment of his pop­u­lar screen cast series, he writes; I’ve been using Doc­trine a lot in my own work, and recently found myself itch­ing to have tighter inte­gra­tion between Zend and Doc­trine when it comes to user logins. Luck­ily, Zend pro­vides a very sim­ple inter­face with regards to […]

John Leben­sold has recorded a VERY nice 7 part video run through that shows how you can use some of the new func­tion­al­ity in PHP 5.30+ that I highly rec­om­mend every­one doing any kind of PHP devel­op­ment to watch espe­cially if you are work­ing with any type of objects, rela­tions, mod­els or always wanted to […]

This is VERY good news!!!
The Zend Frame­work has updated their doc­u­men­ta­tion site with a very handy fea­ture for those that may not be work­ing with the lat­est ver­sion of the frame­work — the abil­ity to select a ver­sion of the frame­work to view the doc­u­men­ta­tion for.
As of the time of this post, they have ver­sions 1.10 back […]

I’ve got a whole lot of ques­tions about what tools other than poedit that exists espe­cially for teams, so I’ll start going through and try to review tools avail­able and add them to the new Trans­la­tion Tools arti­cle series.

I hope you’ll find this useful.

Some encour­ag­ing words from the guys at killersites.com
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Nico­las Fabre asks for help in review­ing his new com­po­nent pro­posal:
Deep Zoom is an imple­men­ta­tion of the Sead­ragon tech­nol­ogy for use in Microsoft Sil­verlight or Sead­ragon view­ing library. It allows users to pan around and zoom in a large, high res­o­lu­tion image or a large col­lec­tion of images. It reduces the time required for initial […]

Chris Thomas writes;  I’ve cre­ated a com­po­nent pro­posal. It is ready for review.
Please check it out.
Your com­ments are wel­comed.
Zend_Service_Prowl — Christo­pher Thomas — Zend Frame­work Wiki.
Zend_Service_Prowl is a sim­ple com­po­nent that imple­ments the Prowl API. Prowl is a ser­vice that allows users to send push noti­fi­ca­tions to the iPhone or iPod.