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Book Updates and Zend Framework 1.8 preview release

Posted on 07/04/2009 at 07:04 AM

Just a quick note that I have now merged the Zend_Application try branch into the trunk of the Storefront project, this should now work with the 1.8 preview release.

Hey Keith,

I’ve been fiddeling with your storefront application and noticed that you are using Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap in your Bootstrap.php

That file is not present in 1.8.0 alpha1 which I’m using so I changed it to Zend_Application_Boostrap_Base and added a public run method in the Bootstrap to make it “work”. Not really work, but to avoid any error messages…

Hi,

I am now using the ZF trunk not the preview release, I am tracking changes so I have everything up to date for the book.

I really should update my blog more often :)

Hello Keith!

I’m a daily visitor of your site/blog and storefront.
I used PHP for the last 5 years and now I’m taking my first steps in Zend Framework. Your blog and source code (in the future the book) are and will be very usefull.

Congratulations and keep the good work.
Thanks

Thanks, I do hope the book will become a good resource for newcomers to the framework. I am now nearing the end of the first draft stage and have been assigned an editor now too which is cool. Sadly had to shave a few chapters off to keep within the page limit but I am still confident it will demonstrate the MVC stuff well.

I also plan to carry on the development of the Storefront, adding new features as they are released and will try to resume blogging once book writing is out the way, this however will be a leisure as I need to spend more time with my wife :)

Thanks for your kind comments :)

Hi Keith,

Big thank you for sharing the code and your knowledge.

I am running ZF 1.8.1 and getting some funny rendering issues. Seems like in all the views php code “<?= “ and “<? “ tags are not recognised and being rendered as text. I replaced it all by “<?php “ and “<?php echo “ and getting the code to work. I was wondering if there is a known issue with wamp server on windows as I never seen this behaviour before…

Keep up the good work.
Will defiantly buy your book when it is out.

Hi

This is because I am using php short tags, these are disabled by default but I use them to make the view scripts easier to read.

The short tags should be turned on in the .htaccess file (php_value “short_open_tag” “on"), maybe they are not being picked up by wamp? You can also set this in the php.ini.

Hope this helps, thanks for dropping by :)