Zend Framework University

If your framework lacks some features, simply add it. This is exactly what Raphael Stolt did to add list feature support to Zend_Service_Twitter service.

Several months ago Twitter added the list feature to it’s public API. While debating some use cases for an event registration application I stumbled upon an interesting feature, which adds participants automatically to a Twitter list upon registration. This way registered and interested users can discover like-minded individuals and get in touch prior to any pre-social event activities. This post will show how this feature can be implemented by utilizing the Zend_Service_Twitter component, and how it then can be used in a Zend Framework based application.

In his post Raphael publishes his class extending Zend_Service_Twitter and adding missing functionality. He also shows how one can use it in controller to add users to Twitter’s list during registration.

Buying a book about as fast changing technologies as web frameworks is a bit dangerous. Writing and publishing a book take a lot of time and meanwhile a whole revolution can happen. Because of that solid book reviews as priceless. On his blog Raphael Stolt reviews Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development book written by Keith Pope.

The book by Keith Pope provides any interested PHP developer, who’s not already sold on a specific framework, a thorough introduction to the vivid Zend Framework and it’s use in a MVC based web application development context. The content of the book is delivered in a fluent, very enthusiastic and ‘knowledge-pillowed’ writing tone.

Although the book seems to be outdated it might still be useful for people stil deciding about which framework to learn first.