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Good news - the Zend Framework License is now compatible with the GPL. This means you can use the ZF for your own GPL-licensed PHP project.

Zend_Service_Simpy is a lightweight wrapper for the free REST API available for the Simpy social bookmarking service. In order to use Zend_Service_Simpy, you should already have a Simpy account. To get an account, visit the Simpy web site. For more information on the Simpy REST API, refer to the Simpy REST API documentation. The Simpy REST API allows developers to interact with specific aspects of the service that the Simpy web site offers. The sections following will outline the use of Zend_Service_Simpy for each of these areas.

Zend_Service_Flickr is a simple API for using the Flickr REST Web Service.

Zend_Service_Audioscrobbler is a simple API for using the Audioscrobbler REST Web Service. The Audioscrobbler Web Service provides access to its database of Users, Artists, Albums, Tracks, Tags, Groups, and Forums. The methods of the Zend_Service_Audioscrobbler class begin with one of these terms. The syntax and namespaces of the Audioscrobbler Web Service are mirrored in Zend_Service_Audioscrobbler.

The Zend Framework offers a pretty slick solution for accessing Amazon's Web Services. For this reason, I decided to adopt it for my project. Using its Amazon Service component in conjunction with a few others that are packaged with the framework, I created the application in almost no time at all. Here, my article recounts how I went about creating this application and shows you just how rapidly you can create applications using this wonderful solution.

I decided to put together an Akismet class using the Zend Framework (resulting in this being PHP 5 only). For those of you who don't know, Akismet is a web service that you can send comments to and they'll let you know whether or not they think it's spam.

About six months ago Dave Dash posted a great little tutorial demonstrating how to integrate the Zend FrameworkÂ’s Search component into a Symfony application. That is exactly what I did for the ICA-AtoM archival description application that I am developing using the Symfony platform. Now that I am working on the next version of this application I have upgraded to the latest version (0.8.0) of Zend Search. This upgrade adds proximity, grouped and boolean searches as well as term rank boosting to the ICA-AtoM application. At the end of this post I have some tips to add to DaveÂ’s tutorial that anyone upgrading from older Zend Search versions should be aware of.

Zend_Service_Akismet provides a client for the Akismet API. The Akismet service is used to determine if incoming data is potentially spam; it also exposes methods for submitting data as known spam or as false positives (ham). Originally intended to help categorize and identify spam for Wordpress, it can be used for any type of data. Akismet requires an API key for usage. You may get one for signing up for a WordPress.com account. You do not need to activate a blog; simply acquiring the account will provide you with the API key. Additionally, Akismet requires that all requests contain a URL to the resource for which data is being filtered, and, because of Akismet's origins in WordPress, this resource is called the blog url. This value should be passed as the second argument to the constructor, but may be reset at any time using the setBlogUrl() accessor, or overridden by specifying a 'blog' key in the various method calls.