Zend Framework 1.6 was just released and we already have it on all our servers. I can honestly say I did not have time to play around with the release candidate versions so my knowledge of it is not great. I am however as I write this working on porting our website to use Zend Framework 1.6. This basically means I need to drop in the new folder and confirm the smarty view system works fine which it does! I’ve actually already found one use for it which is the Zend_Service_ReCaptcha functionality as it is the quickest solution. Our site currently makes use of it using an outside library I’m assuming (Cody setup the captcha). Here’s a quick run down of how easy this is to implement:
$recaptcha = new Zend_Service_ReCaptcha($pubKey, $privKey);
Putting in our pubKey and privKey obviously. Then from there to display it all I need to do is:
$this->view->captcha = $recaptcha->getHTML();
Obviously I assigned it to my view but you could just print it if you wanted to.
$result = $recaptcha->verify(
$_POST['recaptcha_challenge_field'],
$_POST['recaptcha_response_field']
);
if (!$result->isValid()) {
// Failed validation
}
It’s just that easy 🙂
Here’s a quick run down of some of the other features:
- Zend_Tool
- Lucene 2.3 Index File Format Support
- Zend_Session save handler for Database Tables
- Paginator Component
- Figlet Support
- ReCaptcha Service
- Captcha Form Element
- Zend_Config_Xml Attribute Support
- Zend_File_Transfer Component
- File Upload Form Element
- Zend_Wildfire Component with FireBug Log Writer
There are some useful features there like the Captcha one I mentioned. The other big one I’ll probably make use of in the near future is the paginator. I have my own one I created, but I figure no point reinventing the wheel so switching to use the Zend one makes sense.