Monday, 22 January 2007

Zend Framework 0.7.0 Released

Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager for the Zend Framework, has announced the preview release of Zend Framework 0.7.0. The Zend Framework is intended to help create PHP classes for internationalizing applications. Bill claims that the Zend_Locale, Zend_Date, Zend_Measure, and Zend_Translate classes will enable to bring PHP project to a global audience by handling text, dates, and messages with best-practices methods, using a simple objected-oriented interface.

The enhancements and features of this version are as follows:

• Locale-management component
• Locale-aware Date parsing and formatting class
• New translation-management component with gettext support
• Comprehensive class for working with measurements and conversions
• New prototype class for filtering and validation parameters
• New class for managing memory usage in PHP applications
• Other improvements in current components such as MVC, Session, Gdata, HTTP Client, Search, XMLRpc, and others
• Other enhancements to test suites and documentation.