Zend Framework – Getting Single Components

Recently i was looking at implementing some caching to recent websites.. 1 to improve load times as well as a possibility to improve the way that my “Framework” works.

I had just recently looked over Rob Allen’s (@Akrabat http://akrabat.com/) PHP Nw 08 Conference Talk on “First Steps with Zend Framework”. As I had not been really feeling all that great at the conference itself, I was glad to be able to watch teh recorded version on the web. During the 1st segment of the talk, Rob described how zend cache was his first foray into the Zend Framework and this lead me onto how I was thinking about how the best way to implement the caching on my site(s).

So, with this in mind, off I trotted to http://framework.zend.com to grab the Zend Cache component that I wanted to look at. That’s where I hit a snag. It seemed impossible to actually get the components on their own. After about half and hour of scouring the site I still couldn’t find what I wanted, so I Tweeted about my annoyance.. To which I got a couple of replies… the 1st reply came from Richard Chiswell (@rchiswell) who said:

@BinaryKitten You might find the Dependencies list at http://bit.ly/199FYR useful. You could try contacting @CalEvans who wrote a book on ZF

The bit.ly link took me to: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/requirements.html#requirements.dependencies the listing of the components and their dependencies, Though this was helpful it wasn’t really as helpful as the reply i got from Cal Evans (@CalEvans):

@BinaryKitten http://epic.codeutopia.net/pack/

Short Sweet and Wham.. That is exactly what I needed.

Shortly afterwards Richard blogged about this, which in turn made me feel like I should blog about it as well, and oooh look.. So I have.