Akra’s DevNotes

Not only has Jason Qi found a lot of typographical and lexical errors in my tutorial (I know, I know.. you'd think by now I'd have found them all!) but he's also translated it into Simplified Chinese!

Download the PDF from his site now!

Thanks very much Jason.

Zend Framwork v0.6 has introduced new MVC code and one of the changes is that Zend_View_Interface now exists to allow for easy implementation of other templating engines other than PHP based ones like Zend_View or Savant.

We use Smarty at work and when we migrate our content management framework to Zend Framework, we intend to continue using Smarty. Hence, I've created AkCom_View_Smarty to play with how we are going to use Smarty within the Zend Framework. I think that part of the release also has an implemention of Zend_View_Interface that uses Smarty, so it's worth looking at that solution too!

My code is really simple:
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Now that work's finished for the year, I've finally had time to update my tutorial so that it works with 0.6 of the Zend Framework.

There are lots of changes this time to accomodate the new MVC code that Matthew Weier O'Phinney has written. The new MVC system is very simple to use and also very powerful, so I feel that it definitely fits with the stated goals for the Zend Framework.