DZone.com: Q&A with Jason Gilmore: The Zend Framework

On DZone.com today there's a new interview by Lyndsey Clevesy with Jason Gilmore looking at the Zend Framework and some of the general things to expect in coming versions.

Ben Scholzen's Blog: Modern Application Design - Part 1

Ben Scholzen has started a serial about modern appication design on his blog. As base of this serial he is using his blog source for demonstration.

Matthew Weier O'Phinney's Blog: Responding to Different Content Types in RESTful ZF Apps

Continuing on from his previous articles on working with REST in Zend Framework applications (and making the endpoints for a web service) Matthew Weier O'Phinney has a new tutorial with the next logical step in the series, automatically responding to different content types in your application based on the content-type the client sends.

Michael Kimsal's Blog: Zend Framework and Doctrine integration - autoloading of doctrine models

Michael Kimsal has a new post today looking at using Doctrine models in a Zend Framework application and how to get them to autoload when you need them with the help of Zend's Zend_Loader_Autoloader.

Rob Allen's Blog: Zend Framework, IIS and 500 errors

If you've been using the Zend Framework on a Windows platform (running IIS as the web server) and have been getting some 500 errors and have been left lacking the detail you need on the problem, you should read this new post from Rob Allen about an IIS setting that can help you out.

ZendCasts.com: Creating Custom Zend_Form Decorators

On ZendCasts.com today there's a new screencast aimed at showing off custom Zend_Form decorators for your Zend Framework application.

Connecting Flex 4 and RESTful Web Services using Zend Framework

With Adobe’s latest incarnation of the Flex Framework and the Flash Builder integrated development environment ( IDE ), creating truly engaging front-end clients is now more streamlined. Some of the useful tools and features covered in this article are the Data/Services, Test Operation, and Network Monitor additions to Flash Builder. In this article, I explain how to set up a simple Representational State Transfer ( REST ) service using the Zend Framework 1.9 locally and connect to it in the Flex 4 application.

Padraic Brady's Blog: PHP Framework Benchmarks: Entertaining But Ultimately Useless

In a new post to his blog Padraic Brady takes a humorous look at benchmarking PHP frameworks in a response to some of the other recent posts from developers on the Symfony and Solar frameworks.

Adrian Schneider's Blog: Zend Framework Models - Part 1: Concepts

Adrian Schneider has started up a new series of posts on his blog today with part of of his look at models in the Zend Framework .

Zend Developer Zone - Revamp, Rebuild, Redo, Re-Everything

In January, I returned as editor for the Zend Developer Zone. At that time I mentioned I would be chasing my goal "To provide a huge value to the PHP community with original, deep, example and situation laden content." And we have been preparing to start that effort, and in a big way. We will be rebuilding ZDZ from the ground up and in full public view of the community -- to act as a learning experience and a showcase for PHP best practices.

Xebee Blog: Test Driven Development with Zend Framework and PHPUnit

On the Xebee blog there's a recent post looking at test-driven development with the Zend Framework and PHPUnit . They show how they work well together and make it simpler to use TTD to create and test your applications.

1st Russian Zend Framework Conference Announced

The 1st Russian Zend Framework Conference ( ZFC onf 2010) will take place in Saint-Petersburg, Russia at the end of March. An initial list of topics has been decided and the conference is open for registration.

Managing CSS and JavaScript files within a Zend Framework App

Full design control usually means large, thousand plus line CSS files that equal serious pain when it comes to maintenance or building upon. If you don't namespace your selectors carefully you'll end up paying for it down the road. And heaven forbid you apply a default HTML tag styling. So, ranting aside, how do you maintain flexibility and still keep tidy CSS and JavaScript? My solution is to keep the very same directory/file structure that is used for the application for my CSS and JavaScript. The best part is by writing a very simple view helper, it's super easy to automate the proper head link and script file inclusions.

Integrating Flickr Photostreams with PHP using the Zend Framework

Like most people with a digital camera, I tend to be a heavy Flickr user. Not only does Flickr make it easy to share my ever-growing photo collection with colleagues and family, but its drag-and-drop photo organizer and geo-tagging features make it easy to quickly categorize and find pictures from, say, my 2003 holiday in Goa. The really good stuff, though, is hidden behind the scenes. Like many Web 2.0 applications, Flickr exposes its data to the public via a REST API , making it possible to develop customized applications that run on top of the base service. This REST API allows access to a number of important functions, including photo searching, tagging and uploading; photoset retrieval; contact retrieval; and panda recommendations. It’s also pretty easy to integrate this REST API into a PHP application – and this article will show you how!

Zend_Paginator with Twitter API and Zend_Cache

Zend_Paginator does a great job of creating pagination for a site. In this blog post I’m demonstrating how to use Zend_Paginator to easily create pagination of Twitter tweets using Zend_Rest_Client to access the Twitter Services. As a bonus, Zend_Cache is used to store the tweets to make the process more efficient.

ZendCasts.com: Writing a Zend_Auth_Adapter with Doctrine

New from the ZendCasts.com site today there's this new screencast looking at the integration of the Zend_Auth_Adapter component of the Zend Framework and the Doctrine ORM library to split out the authentication from the persistence layer.

Integrating Symfony Dependency Injection Service Container with Zend Framework

In a new post to my blog , I discuss about integrating Symfony Dependency Injection Service Container with Zend Framework . Dependency Injection is an Inversion of Control specific pattern highly used and encouraged throughout Zend Framework implementation. A Dependency Injection container manages your services life-cycle, it is in charge of their instantiation, configuration and injection as shared instances: no more need to use static methods, singletons or factories for your services!

Community News: Zend Framework Documentation Now Version Specific

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.

Gerrymandered Code: Extending Zend_Registry to globalize session vars

In a new post on Chris Renner's blog , Chris discusses his experiences in implementing Zend_Registry as a stand-alone module in his appliciations.

Rdavid.net: Test Results on Memory Usage of Zend Framework and Doctrine with APC

On Rdavid.net there's a post with the results from some tests run on hos much memory the Zend Framework and Doctrine used both with and without the APC caching.