Matthew Weier O’Phinney has announced Zend Framework 1.10 alpha 1 release and it’s roadmap. We should expect to see final release on 21st of January, 2010.
Scope of the release is not yet know as new code is still being commited, but at least the following new features will be present:
- Zend_Barcode, contributed by Mickael Perraud
- Zend_Cache_Backend_Static, contributed by Pádraic Brady
- Zend_Cache_Manager, contributed by Pádraic Brady
- Zend_Exception – previous exception support, contributed by Marc Bennewitz
- Zend_Feed_Pubsubhubbub, contributed by Pádraic Brady
- Zend_Feed_Writer, contributed by Pádraic Brady
- Zend_Filter_Compress/Decompress, contributed by Thomas Weidner
- Zend_Filter_Null, contributed by Thomas Weidner
- Zend_Log::factory(), contributed by Mark van der Velden and Martin Roest
- Zend_Log_Writer_ZendMonitor, contributed by Matthew Weier O’Phinney
- Zend_Markup, contributed by Pieter Kokx
- Zend_Service_LiveDocx, contributed by Jonathan Marron
- Zend_Service_WindowsAzure, contributed by Maarten Balliauw
- Zend_Validate_Barcode, contributed by Thomas Weidner
- Zend_Validate_Callback, contributed by Thomas Weidner
- Zend_Validate_CreditCard, contributed by Thomas Weidner
- Zend_Validate_PostCode, contributed by Thomas Weidner
Please read the announcement to see what can you expect from Zend Framework 1.10 in terms of features and releases dates.
Extend support to the whole of the Atom 1.0 specificationMoving towards Zend Framework 1.10 release more and more new features and components shape up and are being presented by developers and bloggers. Padraic Brady wrote recently about his contribution to Zend_Feed component.
The new kid on the block, to be added in Zend Framework 1.10, is Zend_Feed_Writer. A bit like the older Zend_Feed_Builder classes, its purpose is to generate Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0 feeds. The difference is that, like its sibling Zend_Feed_Reader, it is standards aware and operates entirely using PHP’s DOM.
Besides developing Zend_Feed_Writer Padraic contributed several interesting enhancements to Zend_Feed_Reader:
- support to the whole of the Atom 1.0 specification
- greater API coverage overall
- Array style access
- Standardise API return types using ArrayObjects
LiveDocx.com is a template-based document creation platform. It allows developers to create word processing documents by combining user-defined Microsoft Word templates with data from disparate data sources, such as XML files and databases. It publishes SOAP API for generating the documents. The service can be used to generate good looking, page-oriented documents.
It allows developers to create word processing documents by combining user-defined Microsoft Word templates with data from disparate data sources, such as XML files and databases.
Support for LiveDocx service is a part of upcoming Zend Framework 1.10 release. For those interested in using it PHPLiveDocx.org published a tutorial about PDF generation with Zend Framework and LiveDocx.com.
Zend Framework 1.10 development is moving forward. Last week Thomas Weidner published on his blog news about filters and validators added in Zend Framework 1.10:
Sounds like some of us can throw away our own code and switch to new, official filters and validators. Keep working hard Zend Framework team and soon we won’t have anything to do except for using Zend_Tool and running tests.
