Professional PHP

I enjoyed Friday’s pro::PHP podcast interview with Andi Gutmans. With a name like pro::PHP how can I not like it? This was a less formal presentation than the Zend Framework webcast. Perhaps surprisingly informal for Andi, at least at the end. I thought Marcus Whitney did a great job [...]

This is a follow up post to Why isn’t PHP the natural successor to Java?
Joshua Eichorn (among others) notices that active record can’t work as shown in the Zend Framework webcast. The syntax presented during the web cast is not possible in PHP because of inherited static methods are treated. Mike Naberezny notes [...]

I guess I missed the Zend PHP Framework webcast on Friday. I was looking forward to it, but I signed up a while ago and forgot about it. By the time I got the reminder email, it was too late. Fortunately, the recording is now available. If you have an interest [...]

Tobias Schlitt has a lengthy comparison of the new ezComponents and PEAR. He goes to great lengths to show that ezComponents and PEAR do not compete.
I’ve also seen some ill informed speculation that Zend PHP Framework will kill off PEAR. Um, not gonna happen. PEAR is a library, not a framework. [...]

There is recent interest in consolidating Java frameworks with similar approaches. WebWork is joining Struts, which surprised me. Along the same lines, the Java Web Alignment group brings together many big players in the Java framework space:

The Java web framework landscape has become quite fragmented; the purpose of this group is to explore [...]

There is a sparse FAQ up at zend for PHP Collaboration Project. Looks like there is definitely a framework involved. (The eclipse stuff is nice, too, but my interest is in frameworks.)

Q: Describe the Zend PHP Framework. What is it and why is it needed?
A: Anyone building industrial-grade PHP applications knows there’s [...]

Computerworld has more information on Zend PHP Framework:

“PHP as a language isn’t isolated and people are going to be building SOA types of applications using XML and SOAP,” said Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technology at IBM.
“So the idea is to have an Eclipse plug-in here to leverage content [and] leverage the assets that [...]

The Utah PHP user’s group may have let the cat out of the bag a day early for an announcement at tomorrow’s Zend / PHP Conference:

Zend Technologies this week will announce Zend PHP Framework, a development environment for PHP applications. … Due later this year, Zend PHP Framework is intended to standardize the way [...]