Porting Zend_Service_LiveDocx to ZF 2.0

There has been a lot of talk about Zend Framework 2.0 in the past few weeks. One of the major new features is the consistent use of namespaces through out the framework. This requires that all components be re-written to take advantage of this PHP 5.3 feature.

Although the release of Zend Framework 2.0 is a long way off — currently there is no official release plan — contributors are encouraged to port their components as soon as possible.

Therefore, I am delighted to announce that you can download a version of \Zend\Service\LiveDocx, complete with the latest development version of Zend Framework 2.0 from my account at GitHub.

In particular, take a look at the shipped demo applications,...
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Professional Documents the Easy Way

Jeremy Cook has published a great little article about LiveDocx from his perspective. His opening paragraph really hits the nail on the head and is the main motivation for creating LiveDocx in the first place:

Have you ever tried to create a professional quality document programmatically from within PHP? It’s a real pain and surprisingly tricky to do. There are limited options for PHP developers to produce files in the formats most often used in business. There are libraries for producing PDF files in PHP but they are complex and are difficult to use for producing documents.

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LiveDocx supports PHP Unconference Europe

I am delighted to announce that LiveDocx will officially be supporting the next PHP Unconference Europe (PHPucEU). The exact date and venue have yet been announced, but it is expected to be in Spring 2011.

LiveDocx will be deployed by the unconference in their contribution and interests web application. Using this application, unconference participants can register a session that they would like to host, or register an interest in a specific topic. Another unconference participant can then register a session, based upon the original person’s interest.

The LiveDocx powered contribution and interests web application allows the collection of this data and generates the so called vote posters. To decide upon which sessions...
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PHP Unconference in Hamburg, Germany

The Department of Informatics at the Hamburg University and the Hamburg PHP User Group (Germany) are organizing the fourth annual PHP Unconference on September 25, 2010 and September 26, 2010. It will take place at Geomatikum, Hamburg University.

The last three events were excellent opportunities to hear leading speakers in the web development field and of course to participate in the sessions themselves.

The event’s web site and blog are at:
http://www.php-unconference.de

And its Twitter feed here:
http://twitter.com/phpunconference

Tickets for the event cost only EUR 30.00. This includes entry to both conference days, food and drinks. In comparison to other PHP...
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Zend_Service_LiveDocx Introduction by A. Nuzzo

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Alessandro Nuzzo has just published a great introduction about Zend_Service_LiveDocx. If you are able to read Italian take a look at the following:

Mi capita spesso di dover generare dinamicamente dei file PDF o DOC. Alla ricerca di una soluzione che mi facilitasse il lavoro mi sono imbattuto in LiveDocx, un servizio basato su SOAP che permette di generare dei documenti partendo da dei template creati con un word processor. Solitamente quando devo generare dei PDF utilizzo 2 approcci: o l’”HTML-to-PDF Approach” oppure il “Programmatic Approach”.

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Zend_Service_LiveDocx vs. odtphp by J. Pauli

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Julien Pauli has just published a great commentary about Zend_Service_LiveDocx, comparing it to his library odtphp. If you are able to read French take a look at the following:

Voila quelques temps j’ai sorti odtphp, un script PHP qui analyse des fichiers odt à la recherche de “tags” et qui les remplace par des données que vous fournissez.
C’est très pratique pour générer des factures ou d’autres documents basés sur un template odt et une source de données type MySQL.

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Zend_Service_LiveDocx Intro By Gjero Krsteski

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Gjero Krsteski has just published an introduction that illustrates how to create word processing documents using Zend_Service_LiveDocx. If you are new to Zend_Service_LiveDocx and can read German, this is a great starting point:

Letztens stand ich vor der Herausforderung, eine PDF-Klasse zu schreiben, die PDF-Dateien erzeugt. Als Inhalt für die PDF Dateien waren sensible Kundendaten angedacht. Diese Anforderung war mir nicht fremd, jedoch konnte ich mich gut daran erinnern, dass sie mit viel Arbeit verbunden war. Die meisten Libraries bieten nur die Möglichkeit, die PDF-Dateien Zeile pro Zeile zu generieren Je nachdem woher man die Daten dafür beschaffen muss, kann sich dies zu einem...
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Zend_Service_LiveDocx Intro By Faheem Abbas

Faheem Abbas has just published a great little tutorial that illustrates how to create word processing documents using Zend_Service_LiveDocx. If you are new to Zend_Service_LiveDocx, this is a great starting point:

You may have heard about FPDF, TCPDF. These are used to generate PDF document in PHP. But very few of you may have heard about LiveDocx, can be found here http://www.livedocx.com/. The most cool news I’m going to tell you that Zend Framework 1.10.0 provides clean and simple interface to LiveDocx API. LiveDocx is soap based service. If you are interested more in LiveDocx, following the link I’ve already provided you.

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Zend_Service_LiveDocx stable has been released

I am delighted to announce that the final, stable version of Zend_Service_LiveDocx in Zend Framework 1.10 has just been released.

Download Zend Framework 1.10.0 Full and read the updated documentation on ZendFramework.com.

You can find Zend_Service_LiveDocx_* at the following locations in the distribution tree:

I really recommend taking a look at the demonstration applications, as they illustrate all of Zend_Service_LiveDocx functionality.

You can check that your server environment is set up correctly to run Zend_Service_LiveDocx, by executing check-environment.php in the directory /demos/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/.

I would like to thank Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Zend Framework Project Lead and all other members of...
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Migrating from Tis_ to Zend_Service_LiveDocx

The first implementation of LiveDocx in PHP was in a family of classes called Tis_Service_LiveDocx. It was necessary to give the classes the prefix Tis_ as the Zend Framework coding standards allow the prefix Zend_ to be used only for classes, which are part of the official Zend Framework.

As of the first alpha version of Zend Framework 1.10, the functionality of Tis_Service_LiveDocx is available directly in the Zend Framework in Zend_Service_LiveDocx.

As of today, the use of Tis_Service_LiveDocx is deprecated. Instead use Zend_Service_LiveDocx.

With the exception of the constructor, the API of Zend_Service_LiveDocx is 100% backward compatible to that of Tis_Service_LiveDocx.

At the wish of the Zend Framework community, the constructor was updated from: