It’s been a busy few weeks but I’ve finished and released Chapter 10 of the Zend Framework: Surviving The Deep End book!
The new chapter explores setting up the example blog application’s web design using Zend_View and Zend_Layout. I also spend some time exploring HTML 5, the future standards update for HTML. I decided to employ HTML 5 mainly because it’s rather fun and interesting to get it working today and learn more about where it may impact web applications and web design in the future. The web design itself makes use of the Yahoo! User Interface Library’s CSS components.
I’ve also gotten around to sorting the book’s source code availability. This is explained in the book’s introduction with detailed instructions. The source code is being stored on a git repository hosted by Github.com at http://github.com/padraic/ZFBlog. The specific source code for a chapter is tagged as “Chapter-XX” where XX is the chapter number. This should save everyone from copying the source from the book directly if all they want is the final set.
Finally, let me reiterate that feedback is truly welcome! You can add comments at the end of every single chapter or, if very specific, to any paragraph. The intent of this detailed commenting system is to gather the ideas, criticisms and corrections readers come up with so the final edition (before Zend Framework 2.0 hits!) is as useful, correct and worth reading as possible. So do leave comments or ask questions at the end of chapters!
Zend Framework: Surviving The Deep End is a free online book about the Zend Framework licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.