Translation resources
Hy fellows,
even if it’s not official for now I want to point you to a new feature which will be available within the next few weeks.
Zend_Validate offers more than 100 different error messages which can easily be translated. The problem with “easily” is that you need to create the translation source eighter by parsing ZF’s code or by copying them from the documentation.
This is not a real fast way and is not really good for usability.
So I created translation resources for Zend_Validate’s error messages.
For now you can find them within the Incubator. Look into /incubator/resources/translate/en/Zend_Validate.php.
Use the Array Adapter to load them.
You can already find pre-translated messages for english (of course) and german.
As this feature is for now not officially accepted I would ask to wait before adding new translations until it’s available within core. When it’s time I will add you some example code for those not familiar with Zend_Translate.
Have fun with this new feature when you can’t wait :-)
Greetings
Thomas Weidner
I18N Team Leader, Zend Framework
Zend Framework Advisory Board Member
Zend Certified Engineer for Zend Framework
Migrating Zend Framework
- Posted by thomasw at 18:39:20 // //
- Announcements
Hy fellows,
migrating Zend Framework to a newer release can be a immane work when you want to switch several releases at once.
In past you had to search the complete manual for the multiple migration notes. Every component had his own migration note which meant that you had to read through several chapters until you knew what you had to be aware of.
For Zend Framework 1.10 I changed this.
Now there is a single migration chapter within the appendix where you can find all migration notes from all releases and all components at one place.
When you want to migrate from 1.9 to 1.10 then you can now read in a single chapter and have all changes at one place.
Have fun with this improvement.
Greetings
Thomas Weidner
I18N Team Leader, Zend Framework
Zend Framework Advisory Board Member
Zend Certified Engineer for Zend Framework
Compression and Decompression for ZF
- Posted by thomasw at 21:18:07 // //
- Filter
With Zend Framework Release 1.10 there will be a way to handle compression and decompression.
The new components Zend_Filter_Compress and Zend_Filter_Decompress provide a unified API for several compression formats.
Actually the formats BZ2, GZ, LZF, RAR, TAR and ZIP are implemented:
You can not only work with Strings, but also with Files and also with complete Directories.
Each format is provided as standalone Adapter. This way we can easily add support for a new compression format by adding a new Adapter.
So let’s go a little bit into details…
To compress a string with BZ2 we would code the following lines:
$filter = new Zend_Filter_Compress('bz2');
$input = "Uncompressed content";
$output = $filter->filter($input);
$output will have stored the compressed string.
To reverse the output and get the uncompressed string simply do the following:
$filter = new Zend_Filter_Decompress('bz2');
$result = $filter->filter($output);
As you can see compression and decompression is really very simple.
Now when you want to compress and decompress files, it is as simple as compressing strings.
Simply give the filename instead of a string and tell the adapter where to store the archive.
$filter = new Zend_Filter_Compress(array(
'adapter' => 'bz2'
'options' => array(
'archive' => 'myarchive.bz2'
)
);
$result = $filter->filter('\\path\to\myfile.ext');
The file myfile.ext will be compressed and stored into myarchive.bz2.
You can even compress complete directories. But be aware, that when you do this on the base directory of your server, your server will be stressed for a very long time.
As you can attach this filters to any component which accepts filters, you could very easily compress any given input to store it anywhere else.
Let’s expect you have a textarea element where your costumer provides a book review. To save space you could easily attach this filter to the element and store the compressed string into the database. When you want to display the content to your user again simply decompress it before rendering.
$element = new Zend_Form_Element_TextArea('myarea');
$element->addFilter('Compress', array('zip'));
There are many places where compression or decompression can be useful. In all this cases you can now use Zend_Filter_Compress.
When you find this component useful feel free to use it within your own application.
Have fun with Zend Framework
Greetings
Thomas Weidner
I18N Team Leader, Zend Framework
Zend Framework Advisory Board Member
Zend Certified Engineer for Zend Framework