Wednesday, 30 May 2007

Zend Framework 1.0.0 RC1 Released

Bill Karwin informs you about the release of Zend Framework 1.0.0 RC1. He says, this Release Candidate is intended to show the complete set of features Zend Framework 1.0 has. He adds that following the final 1.0 release, Zend Framework will emphasize on maintaining backward-compatibility. There have been 90 issues fixed in this release since 0.9.3.

There are a few additions in this release, but some of these impact backward-compatibility. Some of them are as follows:

• Zend_Controller has a new feature called the ViewRenderer, which makes it very easy to design controller actions. See docs for the new usage; there is a section in the Controller Migration section for updating your MVC applications.
• Zend_Gdata has a new object-oriented usage, making this client very similar to the interface of Gdata clients for other programming languages. However, support for Google Calendar is unfinished and remains in the incubator.
• Zend_Db statement classes now have a consistent interface and common classes and exceptions across all database adapters; however, binding query parameters and results to PHP variables by reference has a bug (logged as ZF-1440).
• Zend_Filter_Input is a new class with an old name. This provides a solution for declaring rules to filter and validate groups of data, and it serves as a ‘cage’ from which only values that pass your validation rules can be retrieved.
• Zend_Service_StrikeIron is a new web service client in the incubator.