Akra’s DevNotes

I seem to just be posting about translations of my tutorial at the moment, and I've yet more news on that front!

Stig Benning has translated the Getting Started Tutorial into Danish! He asked a few days ago and then emailed me the finished translation a couple of days later. Thanks very much Stig.

Also, Daniel Messer has updated the German translation to sync it with the latest version which is great. Daniel wrote the very first translation of my tutorial way back in September, so thanks Daniel for keeping going through all the changes.

Sorry that it's been a bit quiet around here recently. It's been manic at work (more than usual!) but hopefully that's behind me for a few weeks now.

I'm sure everyone who reads this blog is probably up to date with what's happening in the PHP world, so I won't repeat it all here, as you can just wander over to Planet PHP anyway!

In the Zend Framework world, Pádraic has written an interesting set of posts about views which are worth reading, even if they seem like overkill to you! I'm on the fence myself as I've played with multiple view objects before and wasn't convinced that the additional hassle was worth it. I'm currently thinking that multiple view templates is very useful and using just one view to render them seems to work so far. I'm watching the series closely though as Pádraic always has good things to say.

Finally, saving the biggest news for last, Adler Medrado has translated my tutorial into Brazillian Portuguese! Thank you very much Adler! I've said it before, and no doubt will say it again, I'm still very humbled that people think enough of my little tutorial to translate it. You guys are amazing.

My tutorial is now available in French thanks to Guillaume Rossolini!

Thank you very much Guillaume for your hard work.

Just a quick heads up to let you know that that Jason Qi has published the Simplified Chinese version of my Getting Started with Zend Auth tutorial.

You can find the PDF on his download site.

Thanks Jason.

Jason and others have also spotted a few issues with the tutorial, so I have updated it and we are now at version 1.0.4! Thanks guys for pointing out the issues so that the tutorial makes more sense to new readers !

I've finally managed to update my tutorial for version 0.9 of the Zend Framework. Sorry for the delay.

This is a significant reworking of the code to take into account the changes in the framework, so there are bound to be a few typos. If you find any, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know!

A few people have asked about updating my Getting Started tutorial for version 0.8 of the Zend Framework.

I finally had a chance to check the code and it worked fine with no changes (as expected!)

Darren, one of my colleagues as recently gone through the tutorial for me and found some typos, so I have put out a new version (1.2.4) that fixes these. I've also updated the code too to make it slightly cleaner.

Riki Risnandar has done some sterling work and translated the tuorial to Indonesian! Thank you very much Riki!

You can download the PDF directly and it is also listed on the main tutorial page.

Just a quick update to let you know that version 1.2.x of my Zend Framework Tutorial does actually work on version 0.7 of the framework with no changes. This is because the public API for the MVC components in 0.7 are backwards compatible with 0.6.

I expect that from now on, the basic API for the MVC will stay the same. More advanced stuff, like the module support might change though.

Just a quick note to let you know that I've updated my tutorial to version 1.1.2. This version fixes the include path and a slew of typos that have been found by Brendon Kozlowski. Thanks Brendon!

Isn't it amazing that even after all the reading that's been done of this tutorial that there are still typos to be found?!