Just a note to the mailing list that after months of work on the Zend_Feed component (pretty much a total rewrite/replacement of its functionality), the first alpha version of Zend Framework 1.10 (due later today) will include a Pubsubhubbub Publisher and Subscriber implementation. I've just finished committing the final draft of the documentation to the framework's trunk.
Once the 1.10 release is moving along in the New Year towards stable, I'll finally have free time to complete the Hub implementation (way overdue but it depends on the vastly improved Zend_Feed_Reader and new Zend_Feed_Writer components). I gave up counting the hours of work that went in Zend_Feed. It's grown from a light DOM wrapper to feeds with <100 unit tests to a fully featured interpretive parser with Pubsubhubbub support now with 1257 unit tests and close to 1500 assertions in total. It's a monster so easy and intuitive to use, nobody should ever suspect just how much work went into it ;). That's how it should be. If you are a PHP developer or fan of another framework like Symfony or CodeIgniter, you are probably already aware that Zend Framework components are decoupled. i.e. you can immediately use them in any other PHP framework or app simply by sticking the ZF on your include_path somewhere. I'll write a blog post later to supplement the documentation in the alpha release. As usual, thanks to the guys who created Pubsubhubbub for making it a no-brainer to implement, and also to Julien over at Superfeedr who bore the brunt of my early testing which I think helped both of us figure out implementing some of the more obscure areas of the spec. Paddy Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.survivethedeepend.com OpenID Europe Foundation Irish Representative
