Rob Allen's DevNotes

I've finally got around to updating the Zip file on the tutorial page!

This time, I've created two files: one with the Zend Framework (1.0.1) included and one without. The one without is much smaller at only 9KB, where as with the Framework, the zip is 2.2MB.

The links are:

• Zip file of tutorial (~9KB)
• Zip file of tutorial including ZF1.0.1 (~2.2MB)

I've also updated the tutorial itself to 1.4.4. This is a really minor update that fixes a couple of issues reported over the last month or so. The main one being that we now use Zend_Db_Table's createRow() function to create an empty record rather than manually creating one using stdClass.

A couple of new translations of my Zend Framework tutorial have crossed my desk in the last week.

Kubek Bartosz has very kindly created a new up to date Polish version of my Zend Framework tutorial.

Alex Musayev has created a Russian translation too.

I say this a lot, but I really am still amazed that people think that my little tutorial is worth the effort of translating.

Thank you very much guys. I'm sure that you will have helped some of your fellow PHPers understand ZF a little bit better.

I am a little late in announcing this as my email inbox is overflowing and I missed the mail :(

Claudio Cossio has translated both my Zend Framework tutorial and my Zend Auth Tutorial into Spanish!

Thanks very much Claudio.

Just a quick heads up to let you know that the team at developpez.com have created a French version of my Zend_Auth tutorial. The French version of my tutorial, Débutez avec le Zend Framework, has also been updated in line with the 1.4.0. version.

Thanks guys!

William Graham has been playing with the Zend Framework and Oracle using my tutorial.

His notes are very useful if you want to get my admittedly MySQL-centric tutorial working with Oracle. I've come across that uppercase field name thing before in an application I wrote at work that needed to transfer some data from Oracle to SQL Server. Took me a while to work out what was going on.

I'm a little confused about the case of form element names in $_POST, so will have to test that at some point.

Zend Framework 1.0.0. RC1 is out and with it a new action helper called ViewRenderer. This is a great action helper that handles the View integration with the Controller. As as result, the controller action functions are simpler and so I've updated my tutorial to reflect this.

It's not a big change though: just remove all calls to $this->render() and $this->initView() in the controller!

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 !