Breizh Défi

Le Cercle Celtique de Guérande, champion de Bretagne en titre de danse bretonne, organise le plus grand Bal Paludier jamais effectué le 7 août 2009. A l’occasion de cet événement, ils ont lancé un site dédié : http://www.bro-gwenrann.org/breizhdefi/index.php (avec une petite couche de Zend Framework : Zend_Form et Zend_Pdf entre autres).

Mais ils ont surtout lancé une série de teasers, afin de trouver les 2000 danseurs attendus :

N’hésitez pas à les regarder, c’est très bien fait !

Zend Framework 1.8.x – documentation CHM & PDF

Updated on 2009-05-17 for 1.8.1 release.Attention for those which use Vista (thanks to Julien for the link).

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer under Windows XP SP2 or later and you are going to download in CHM format, you should « unblock » the file after downloading it, by right-clicking on it and selecting the properties menu item. Then click on the ’Unblock’ button. Failing to do this may lead to errors in the visualization of the file, due to a Microsoft bug.

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Adding extensions to Zend Server

For my translator tool for Zend Framework, I needed the pspell extension to add a spell checker to the tool and I also wanted to test the PHP SVN extension. Unfortunately, pspell and svn are not included by default in Zend Server. There are 2 ways to add it to Zend Server: using Zend Server sources or using PECL. I followed the below instructions to install them on my Ubuntu 8.10.

Installing PSPELL via Zend Server sources

First of all, as suggested by Jess comment (see below), you have to check the availability of differents packages to compile a PHP extension:

autoconf -V | grep '^autoconf'
#autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
automake --version | grep '^automake'
#automake (GNU automake) 1.10.1
gcc --version | grep '^gcc'
#gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu12) 4.3.2

Second: Aspell and languages that you want to check:

apt-get install aspell libaspell-dev aspell-en aspell-fr ...

Third: pspell library:

apt-get install libpspell-dev

Fourth: retrieve Zend Server sources (in my case PE Edition but you can do the same with CE Edition by replacing ‘pe’ with ‘ce’):

apt-get install php-source-zend-pe

Fifth: configure and compile extension (I use here the default installation directory ‘/usr/local/zend’, exchange the occurrences with your installation dir)]:

cd /usr/local/zend/share/php-source/php-5.2.9/ext/pspell
/usr/local/zend/bin/phpize
./configure --with-pspell --with-php-config=/usr/local/zend/bin/php-config
make
make install

Last: enable it in Zend Server configuration:

and check your phpinfo:

Installing SVN via PECL

Of course, you also need autoconf, automake and gcc like described above.

First: you need subversion libraries:

apt-get install subversion libsvn-dev

Second: you use PECL to install the extension, SVN is a beta extension for the moment, so you need to define explicitly the version you want. Or you can change PECL configuration:

/usr/local/zend/bin/pecl install svn-0.5.0
# or
/usr/local/zend/bin/pecl config-set preferred_state beta
/usr/local/zend/bin/pecl install svn
/usr/local/zend/bin/pecl config-set preferred_state stable

You will have 2 questions: prefix of Subversion installation and prefix of the APR installation used with Subversion. If you didn’t change them during their installation, you just have to keep autodetect.

Last: enable it in Zend Server configuration:

and check your phpinfo:

Special thanks to Remi Woler for the help and Jess Portnoy for the suggestions.