Entries by Kevin Vaughan

The first formal release of WSDLInterpreter is approaching as almost all of the emails I'm receiving have changed from bug reports to acclamations. Thanks for everyone's support and help along the way. If you haven't tried WSDLInterpreter out yet, and are looking for an alternative to the other wsdl2php solutions out there, you can read about the benefits of WSDLInterpreter here, or download RC2 from the google code project.

To everyone waiting on the next pass of BaseApp, check back tomorrow. Updates include administration abstraction, Zend_DB, Zend_ACL, and more, I'm just doing a final look over of the new stuff before I release it.

Been having problems with the other wsdl2php solutions out there? Then give WSDLInterpreter a try, and help test things out before the impending release of the first stable version!

Read about the benefits of the WSDLInterpreter wsdl2php solution, or download WSDLInterpreter v1.0.0 RC1 right away from the google code project.

This week's update to BaseApp includes:

• Inclusion of phpdoc into all BaseApp classes


• Integration of Xend_Layout with example layout usage


• Implementation of complex error handling, allowing for easy module specific error controller usage


• Minor modifications to smarty inclusion to allow for easier usage

As always, you can download from the BaseApp downloads page, or pull down the latest version directly. The next integration will be an ORM layer and an administration abstraction.

After receiving some helpful feedback and testing on various WSDLs that weren't being satisfied by the alpha version of WSDLInterpreter, I'm happy to package up and release the beta version, now with its own page on here that describes the benefits of it and a link to the download from the google code project.

Try out WSDLInterpreter v1.0.0b today, or get started by reading the benefits of it over other wsdl2php solutions!

Minor update today for BaseApp. Updates include:

• Changed Smarty integration to extend Zend_View_Abstract instead of implement the base interface


• Removed the free-form class autoloader and replaced it with basic Zend_Loader to promote better coding standards and portability


• Various small tweaks to move towards being in line with ZF coding standards (phpdoc to come soon!).


• Updates to the BaseApp information pages

You can always get the latest version of BaseApp from the BaseApp downloads page, or pull down the latest version directly.

Thanks to Naneau, SpotSec and other visitors of #zftalk on irc.freenode.net for the continual ZF conversation!

After spending some time playing with the recently released Zend Framework, I decided to build a core layer to sit on top of the framework to make it easy to be able to quickly jump into development. Once I started, I also saw a lot of people on various ZF related forums and in #zftalk on irc.freenode.net asking for examples of various integrations and implementations using the framework.

Unfortunately for the community, most of the examples that are readily available use older versions of the framework and are no longer functional or don't utilize some of the newer functionality properly.

So, I've put up an early copy of BaseApp - an application core layer built the Zend Framework (direct download). Features in this alpha version include: a modularized component structure; main application controls, logging and configuration; graceful Smarty template integration; basic content structures controls with search engine friendly URLs; and class autoloading and easy deployment capability.