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Zend Framework 1.8 and Zend_Application

I have been busy getting chapter 6 out the door for a while now, and as part of this I have been trying out the Zend_Application prototype in the ZF svn.
I now have a fully working version of the Storefront using Zend_Application, the storefront itself is still unfinished but I though I would post a link to the new source in case anyone
was wanting to try it…

Zend_Application Try Branch

All in all I am very happy with the way Zend_Application works, it has enabled me to lose a lot of my own library code! Which makes things much easier.

Quick Install Notes

You will need to checkout the trunk incubator and the Zend_Application user branch.

Inside the library folder:

svn co http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/incubator/library Incu
svn co http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/branches/user/dasprid/Zend_Application/library Zapp

These are then added to the include_path in application/application.php, you will also need to patch the Zend_Application files using the ZApp_Zend.diff included in the branch, these are just some minor changes I need to do to get things working with the storefront and some minor bugs, remember it is a prototype! (run the patch from within the Zapp folder)

Posted on 06/03/2009 at 11:15 AM

Book progress limited blogging

I haven’t had much time to blog lately, I have plenty to say but just no time to actually blog it. Hopefully will get some time once the book is out the way which looks to be around July ish!

Currently I am writing chapter six of 15, which is going well, you can track my progress via the googe code site

There are a few cool proposals in the Zend Framework wiki that I am watching when I get time:

http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Db_Mapper+-+Benjamin+Eberlei

http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource+-+Matthew+Weier+O%27Phinney

These two are well worth checking out, hopefully they will be included at some point.

Anyway thats all for now :) You can follow my further ramblings on twitter now usernname: muteor :)

Posted on 01/02/2009 at 07:21 PM

Zend Framework Book Example Application

I have moved the code for the example application that will accompany my book to google code.

It’s still at very early stage but I am slowly getting there! Feel free to submit code reviews, comments etc. I will hopefully be including some install instructions soon as well…

Storefront Example Application

Posted on 12/12/2008 at 07:49 PM