Zend Framework 1.6 stable

ZF 1.6 has been released. Its distributed with Dojo now and includes a SOAP server/client, paginator, captcha form element. A webinar was held a while ago, for further insight into this releas.

This post also has a link to a very interesting project called reCaptcha, which just shows how the little mundane things we do can actually be turned into something useful.

The Ruby-on-Rails style tooling component is also quite interesting.

There is a Zend Framework and Dojo Integration webinar later today.

Dojo and ZF ties a knot

I've been eagerly awaiting some indication of which Ajax direction Zend Framework will take and was very excited to read Andi Gutmans' post that would be speaking about it at php|tek.

And finally yesterday the announcement was made that Dojo and ZF have entered into a partnership.

It seems the partnership will have an immediate impact on Zend_Form, which is great. ZF will also be shipped with Dojo, which always makes things easier. The only question now, is when will the implementations start coming through?

Mahara 1.0 Released

"Mahara 1.0.0 (Stable) by Mahara - Tue, Apr 1st 2008 22:35 PDT

About: Mahara is fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder, and social networking system for connecting users and creating online communities.

Changes: Devolved administration allows each institution to have their own administrators, leaving the site admin free to run the site. Group forums allow group members to interact and discuss with each other. The social networking side has been improved; it's now easier to find friends and groups, and all users have improved profile pages. Usability has been greatly improved throughout the system. There have been many smaller bugfixes and improvements. "

Mahara can be visited and demoed at http://www.mahara.org/ and the community is online at #mahara on irc.freenode.net

Think Open recently wrote a single sign on plug-in for Drupal users to browse seamlessly to a Mahara server. User data is pulled from Drupal and Mahara logs the user in auto-magically. Think Open is awaiting a Drupal CVS account, and soon the module will be uploaded to http://www.drual.org/

Zend Framework 1.5 released

Zend Framework 1.5 was released yesterday. It succeeds v1.0.4, so it quite a big jump in evolution.

apart from the new Zend_Form component with support for AJAX-enabled form elements, other additions are:

* New action and view helpers for automating and facilitating AJAX
requests and alternate response formats
* Infocard, OpenID, and LDAP authentication adapters
* Support for complex Lucene searches, including fuzzy, date-range, and
wildcard queries
* Support for Lucene 2.1 index file format
* Partial, Placeholder, Action, and Header view helpers for advanced
view composition and rendering
* New Zend_Layout component for automating and facilitating site layouts

Read the announcement here

PHP on your mobile phone

PAMP, Personal Apache MySQL and PHP Released for Symbians

http://mobile.phpmagazine.net/2008/01/pamp_personal_apache_mysql_and.html

Exciting new Zend releases

There are many new product updates released already this year:

Zend Platform v3.6
http://www.zend.com/en/products/platform/whats-new


Zend Framework 1.5 beta
http://framework.zend.com/download

Zend Studio for Eclipse
http://www.zend.com/en/products/studio/

Zend Framework 1.5: a sneak preview

Seems the next release of ZF will be more radical than planned. the release candidate has even changed from 1.1 to 1.5. Here are some posts giving us a few clues of whats coming:

Zend Framework- Coming soon to a Command Line near You!

What’s in a name?

Zend Framework: Launch, ZendCon, Roadmap, and ZF 1.5

The ZF proposal WIKI

The high level ZF roadmap