Zend Framework 1.8 alpha
Zend Framework now approching version 1.8. Yesterday, it put the 1.8 alpha available for download. Also, the reference guide document has been updated including the feature of version 1.8.
It added 4 new components: Zend_Application, Zend_CodeGenerator, Zend_Tool_Framework, Zend_Tool_Project. Also, It supports more service like Zend_Service_Twitter and may be more.(I am not sure, because I have not checked what services included in previous versions).
Zend_CodeGenerator, Zend_Tool_Framework, Zend_Tool_Project looks like make up a tool chain to support Zend_Tool_Project, which looks like a command line tool can create the Zend Frame project sketch. In 1.8 alpha, it is hardly functional. What I can find out is just a zf.sh included in the bin folder, which you run
zf.sh create project ~/workspace/test
will create a default site struct in the given folder. However, the code generated has syntax error. (doule <?php), also, I can not figure out how to create projects using modules.
Most interesting part is the Zend_Application. It abstracts and wrap the common bootstrap procedures, so you don’t have to code the almost the same bootstrap file for each project.
I am doing a test project using Zend_Application bootstraping. Check out at:
http://code.google.com/p/yaz/source/browse/#svn/trunk
