Zend Framework 1.7.0 has been released and is now available from the Zend Framework download site
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 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!
Jani Hartikainen (no, not the Finnish soccer player) has posted on his blog about a project he built that allows you to build custom packages of Zend Framework components.
Jonathan Wage has written an excellent post on the symfony-project blog showing how easy it is to get a new symfony project up and running with symfony 1.2 and Doctrine ORM.
Lorna Mitchell, the senior European correspondent for phpwomen.org, has posted a good piece on her blog about what she learned when she delved into Zend_Db.
If you are not familiar with Xdebug it is an extension that allows you to profile your application for various things like performance and memory usage. One of its more usefull features is the ability to profile your application to find out what method are taking the longest so you can clean up those bottlenecks in your application.
We are excited to announce that the Zend Framework 1.7 Preview Release is now available from the Zend Framework download site!
Appcelerator was a sponsor at ZendCon 08 this year but obviously they were much more as well. They created a series of videos from interviews they shot while there.
Unless you live under a rock or code in Ruby, you know that last week, php|architect rebooted itself. They now have a new look, new options and a concern for the environment not usually seen in the publishing industry.
Refcardz is a cool project by my friends over at dzone.com and last week it just got a lot cooler because they released their first PHP RefCard.
