Software Update: Zend Framework 1.9.6

Zend Technologies continues to work on version 1.9 of its Zend Framework and has released another maintenance release. Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented framework for developing web applications. It was created with the thought of keeping it as simple as possible to use. The program is developed in php version 5 and uses a mvc, a so-called model-view controller, to divide the matter into manageable blocks. In version 1.9.6, the following issues have been fixed:

Issues resolved for this release:

• Typo in Chapter 2. Zend_Acl, 2.1.1. Resources
• Incorrect config example for Zend_Application_Resource_Layout
• Auto-bind
• Text not displaying (correctly) for the bulleted list of 6 basic types of routes
• getParams() ignores Zend_Controller_Request::setParamSources()
• Error in section 15.1.1.2. Using the Zend_Db Factory
• Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo: oci : function describeTable
• quote Into won’t accept valid SQL if question mark is in first position.
• No example of SELECT stuff WHERE id IN()
• No extension named pdo_mssql
• Undefined variable in Zend_Db_Select
• Incorrect example of Zend_Db_Table_Select::where
• In Zend_Db_Select::limit(), an empty first parameter won’t be converted to max integer in 32-bit architecture.
• Some Zend_Db_Table examples not rendering correctly
• Zend_Dojo does not set required=”false” if explicitly set
• Zend_Dojo_Form_Element_FilteringSelect value is not populated after calling the populate method on the form object
• Dijit parsing before store creation fails value setting in FilteringSelect and ComboBox.
• Zend_Feed_Rss : Guid for the entries is not completed
• Zend_Feed_Builder – createHeader and createEntries should be protected
• Add possibility to create guid (or other elements) attributes
• PHP Fatal error when running Zend_Fead_Reader tests with phpunit’s –group paramter
• Zend_Feed_Reader::findFeedLinks() doesn’t handle relative feed URIs
• Zend_Feed_Reder::import() doesn’t fail on non-feed documents
• Zend_Feed_Reader::findFeedLinks() does not cleanup URI whitespace
• Test Failures Zend_Feed_Reader Atom/RSS
• Zend Feed assumes invalid encoding if not specified
• Call to undefined function getCommentCount()
• Zend_Feed_Reader_Feed_Interface should be Zend_Feed_Reader_FeedInterface
• Zend_Form_Element_Radio generates non valid html
• Zend_Form_Element_Hash does not set a value when renderViewHelper() is called
• File validators aren’t being included automatically
• Zend_Form_Decorator_Label->setTag() produces invalid XHMTL
• Error in example in 24.9.2.2.
• Unit tests for Zend_Http_Client appear to hang on Curl tests
• Incorrect use of timeout in Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl
• Zend_Http_Client_StaticTest fails with fatal error
• Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource::autoload() should return false if no match is found
• setReturnPath overwrites setFrom in Zend_Mail_Protocol_Smtp
• Zend_Mail_Protocol_Imap connect method throws possibly misleading exception message on socket open failure
• Several TYPOs in Zend_Mail_Protocol_Imap and Zend_Mail_Protocol_Pop3
• Zend_Mail_Transport should not add charset parameter to multipart Content-Type header
• Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp constructor leaves $_name property same
• Zend_Mail_Protocol_Imap::_decodeLine incorrectly parses some kind of strings
• Constructor of Zend_Navigation_Page referst to an undefined variable $config when passed a Zend_Config object.
• Disturbing lack of validation in Example 38.7. – Database Storage – DbStorage extends Zend_OpenId_Consumer_Storage
• Zend_Pdf performance improvement
• Checking for wrong gd_info() key, was renamed in PHP 5.3.0
• Zend_Pdf_Page has fatal errors when used due to bad dependencies
• Zend_Queue_Adapter_Memcacheq should not open new socket each time send() is called
• Incorrect link
• Zend_Reflection_Doctype_Tag_Param regex does not account for PHP 5.3 style namespaces
• Zend_Rest introduction does not mention Zend_Rest_Controller at all
• Rest route doesn’t work in chains in some cases
• Query sorting by field named ‘sort’
• Zend_Search_Lucene_Interface_MultiSearcher::find() throws warning when there are no indexes
• ZipArchive::getFromName() problem
• possible typo in Scoring Algorithms description for Zend Search Lucene
• Mixing ‘find’ and ‘addDocument’ with empty fields results in wrong indexes
• Add Test Helper to Ec2 Test Cases
• getMetricStatistics() does not support the “Dimensions” option parameter properly
• remove unnecessary requirements from Zend_Service_Twitter constructor
• Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db_Operation_Truncate fails on Postgres tables with foreign keys
• Installation of PHPUnit 3.4.0 makes the zf –help command exit with Fatal PHP errors
• $_log in Zend_View_Abstract seems to be unused anywhere
• Error in Zend_View_Script example about Smarty