Zend Framework

When it comes to working with different file formats, PHP is like a Swiss Army knife: it has a tool to handle almost anything you can throw at it. JPEG images, XML files, Word documents, ZIP archives…you name it, and there’s a PHP extension to handle ... [More] it! This incredible versatility also applies to the topic of today’s article: the PDF, or Portable Document Format. Not content with just one, PHP actually comes with two different extensions that allow developers to dynamically generate PDF documents: the PDFlib extension, and the libHaru extension. Over the next few pages, I’m going to take a quick look at the Haru extension, providing you with a brief overview of its functions and demonstrating how you can use it in your PHP development. So come on it, and let’s get going! [Less]

Supporting open-source PHP projects can be done by for example contributing code, writing or translating documentation or by fixing bugs. The latter is not usually the most exciting task, but still is quite important as the amount of bugs is an ... [More] indication for the overall quality of the project. With this in mind, the Belgian PHP user group PHPBelgium and the Dutch PHP user group, phpGG, have decided to work together and launched a new initiative, called PHP BugHunt Days. [Less]

The Zend implementation of Lucene provides a powerful tool set for those looking to implement a Google-like search for their PHP web application. One of the requirements in creating a Google-like search with Zend is the creation of a stemming, stop ... [More] word filtering, lower-casing analyzer. This article will briefly discuss the basic role of an analyzer in the Lucene API, my implementation of a new “StandardAnalyzer” for the Zend_Search_Lucene component of the Zend Framework, the inner workings of this analyzer, and its basic usage. [Less]

We are excited to announce that the Zend Framework 1.7 Preview Release is now available from the Zend Framework download site!

Adobe’s technical evangelism team is packing up the bus and hitting the road to show PHP User Groups how cool Flex and PHP can be when used together.

This tutorial will set you through using Zend_Tool to jump-start development on your next ZF MVC application. Zend_Tool is both RAD tools as well as a framework for exposing your own set of tooling needs to the Zend_Tool user interface. While the ... [More] areas in which extending Zend_Tool are exhaustive, we will focus merely on obtaining and using the current Zend_Tool toolset. [Less]

Christoph Dorn has released an interesting tutorial over on his blog about how to use the new Zenf Framework/FirePHP integration.

That right, fire up those down-loaders and grab your headlamp and pick-axe. There’s fresh code to be had for the taking!

There is big news in the Zend Framework world this morning. Zend and Adobe are working together to put support for AMF into the framework.

No, not the software, the book. I’ve had this book sitting on the top of my stack for too long. Let’s take a peek inside and see what Pete MacIntyre and Ian Morse have to teach us about Zend Studio.