Posted by Jon on Oct 5, 2008 in Development, PHP | 0 comments
So while working with out dated libraries to fetch id3 tags I deiced to try and write my own Id3 Tag parser and of course I figured why not share it with the Zend Framework Community. I have crated the Zend_Id3 Proposal and I have started initial coding on it.
Currently it only parses out Id3v1 and Id3v1.1 tags but I’m working on the Id3v2.x support now. If you want to see the source I am publishing it to github.com.
Current usage is like this:
$id3 = new Zend_Id3();
$tags = $id3->analyze('/Id3/_files/demo.mp3');
print_r($tags);
It only returns an array for right now but I’m considering having it return an object so you have easy detection of which variables are there and which ones are not.
I’ll post more when I get more done.
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Posted by Jon on Oct 3, 2008 in General, PHP | 0 comments
Wow I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since my last post but my time has been very limited to do personal things. Since my last blog post I have been on two trips and done countless other things with work and personal stuff.
Trip 1 was to ZendCon08 (http://www.zendcon.com) in Santa Clara, Ca. I had a tremendous time while out there. I also took my elePHPant with me and if you want to check out his travels you can on my flickr feed. I met a lot of the PHP community and made good contacts for any future endeavors I might have.
Trip 2 was down to Lake Cumberland in Kentucky with the girl friend and her friends. It was a total blast even it was only one for 2 days. Let me tell you there is nothing better than floating around for ~4 hours drinking beer. After talk with with everyone we have deiced to make it an annual trip at the end of September. I already can’t wait for next year.
I am also happy to announce that I was part of the Advisory Board for the Zend Framework Exam from Zend. We started working back in March and we compleated it at the start of September. I learned a lot and also made a lot of good friends in the process and I would reccomend that if you ever have the chance that you should take part in one.
I’m going to try and blog more this fall as I should have a lot more free time.
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Posted by Jon on Jul 30, 2008 in Development, Flex, PHP | 0 comments
Thanks to the tweet from Andi Gutmans and the blog post for the huge heads up on this one.
Adobe has made a proposal for an AMF (Action Message Format) component in Zend Framework. This ZF component will allow for client-side applications built with Flex and Adobe AIR to communicate easily and efficiently with PHP on the server-side. Leading the design of the component for Adobe is Wade Arnold. Wade already has a track record of bringing the Adobe RIA technologies to PHP as a result of all of his work on AMFPHP.
This is going to make things in my life much easier as I’m becoming a Flex developer (not by choice) at work. Don’t get me wrong, I am having fun learning Flex but having to work with WebOrb is just a pain in the ass when there are such better tools out there.
Zend_Amf is being targeted for the 1.7 release as the release cycle for 1.6 is under way.
I’m going to watch this one closely.
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