New features include:

• The ServiceManager, a performant, easy-to-use way to create and configure the various objects you use in your application, particularly your controllers and their dependencies. While it largely replaces Zend\Di within the MVC, it also allows using DI as an abstract (fallback) factory.
• The InputFilter, a new, object-oriented component for filtering and validating input, whether from the web, a model, or a web service.
• A newly rewritten Form component, which consumes the new InputFilter, and acts as a bridge between your domain model and the view layer.
• Refactored Log and Crypt components.
• and much, much more!

You can read the full release announcement on the Zend Framework 2 blog.

If you are plannng to attend DPC12, make sure you find me and say hi. (You should say that, say “Hi!”) Let’s swap business cards and either catch up or learn more about each other. If you aren’t currently planning on attending DPC, there are still tickets available, so register now! Don’t wait till the last minute, get your ticket now and come hang with me and a lot of other PHP programmers as we spend 3 days learning and networking.

I should probably note that me being at DPC is not really a good enough reason to attend. The schedule that they have put together is though. Checkout the talks and speakers they have lined up and I think you’ll agree with me that it’s a great lineup and is going to be a fantastic conference.

The goal of the Zend\Crypt\BlockCipher is to simplify the use of
cryptography in PHP with default values that prevents mistakes with the
guarantee, as much as possible, of good security.

In the email Enrico gives the details of what he’s built along with a small snippet of code to let you play with it in a ZF 2 project.

Enrico’s repo for Zend\Crypt can be found here, ezimuel/zf2/library/Zend/Crypt.

Reading over what he wrong, it looks like the new component actually consists of several components.

• Zend\Stdlib\Hydrator
• Zend\Filter\InputFilter
• Zend\Form
• A series of View helpers

If you are gearing up to start developing with Zend Framework 2 then this email is a must read.

When you’re working with Zend Framework, and code in general, you keep your configuration as much out of code as you can – right? Well, if you want to write maintainable and flexible code you do. Well, if you’ve been working with Zend Framework and Zend Form for more than a little while, you know that it really makes that pretty simple via Zend_Config – well, some of the time.

Invest a click in learning more about Zend Form, Zend Config and how to use the two together to build better applications.

This library contains Facebook oAuth2 Authentication adapter and basic Facebook Graph API library. The project was inspired by two projects on GitHub -> Zend_Auth_Adapter_Facebook and Facebook-PHP-SDK-for-Zend-Framework

Both were lacking either beauty of code or were just incomplete. So after whole day of digging and hacking the code I decided to come up with my version.

If you work (play?) with Zend Framework 1 and Facebook, give this project a try and see if it eases your oAuth pain. As with all good github projects, the author is looking for contributions. Get out those forks and start sending in pull requests!

If you are ZendCon alumni – and there are a lot of you out there – take a moment, stroll down memory lane, and remember ZendCons past. Pick your favorite moment and tweet it to us.

• Tell us who you met. Tell us about the job you landed because you were there.
• Tell us the best session you ever saw.
• Tell us the big memory that sticks out in your mind. The moment that makes you smile and stare off into the distance as you relive it.

Make sure and tag it #zendcon so we don’t miss it.

Tell us your ZendCon highlights and be in with a chance to win PHP swag #zendcon

— ZendCon (@zendcon) May 10, 2012

Many community members have already started down the path but we want everyone to get involved. So take a moment, think back, smile, and then tweet.

Here are a couple of links to help jog your memory.
ZendCon on Flickr
ZendCon on Youtube

…and of course, my one attempt at a video montage:

The commenter is right, it’s a crappy video…unless you were there.

Her’es a quick bite to wet your appetite.

Vagrant is a fantastic tool that enables you to manage and run virtual machines from the command line, including automatic provisioning of them using puppet or chef. The really cool thing about it however from my point of view is that vagrant automatically sets up the VM with a folder called /vagrant that holds the code on your local hard drive from where you started the VM. This means that you can continue to edit your code in your local editor/IDE and test it within the VM easily.

Rob shows you how to:

• Get up and running
• Check out the Zend Framework codebase
• Build your target version of PHP
• Run your tests

The great thing is he also shows you how to have multiple versions of PHP and test against each of them.

It’s a very good interview and gives any PHP developer some things to think about.

Some of the questions asked of Enrico are:

• Things that you consider before choosing a framework for a project?
• Who’s your programming hero?
• What features would you like to see in the next PHP version?

Those are all fine and good but early on in the interview they ask the one question that every developer has to ask him/her self at some point.

Sheldon or Leonard?
I have to say Sheldon but I feel more Leonard, to be honest.

It’s a great interview and a chance to get to know a little more about Enrico, even if you can’t attend php Day.

If you are attending, make sure you look for Enrico and check out his session, “A quick start on Zend Framework 2“.

A long time ago, I set out to write my own blog platform. Yes, WordPress is a fine blogging platform, as is Serendipity (aka “s9y”, and my previous platform). And yes, I know about Habari. And, for those of you skimming ahead, yes, I’m quite aware of Jekyll, thank you anyways.

Why write something of my own? Well, of course, there’s the fact that I’m a developer, and have control issues. Then there’s also the fact that a blog is both a simple enough domain to allow easily experimenting with new technology and paradigms, while simultaneously providing a complex enough domain to expose non-trivial issues.

When I started this project, it was a technology-centered endeavor; I wanted to play with document databases such as CouchDB and MongoDB, and with caching technologies like memcached and redis.

This is a very interesting article. There is a lot of code displayed but no complete project. Quite honestly, if you read the entire article, I’m pretty sure that only a select few would even want to see all of the code. The blogging process he sets out as his “normal” process kind of redefines the word “normal”; but to each his own.

Even though most people won’t be interested in blogging the way that MWOP does, his journey to this process is very interesting; and that s what this post is really about, the journey, not the end result.

Give it a read and then leave Mr. O’Phinney a comment about his journey, his process, or just salute his for all his work on marshaling ZF2.