Continuing in his series looking at the construction of a blogging application with the Zend Framework, Padraic Brady has posted a quick new item pointing out the subversion repository for the project if you'd like to follow along:

You should all see a few commits commencing at the weekend. Probably all in one go since I largely have a standard skeleton I use already. [The URL is] http://svn.astrumfutura.org/zfblog/.

He's working live on it so things might break from time to time, but at least you can keep up with his thoughts and ideas on methods for some of the common blogging tasks.

You can find the first two parts of the series here - Part 1 and Part 2

Akash Mehta has pointed out five "PEAR gems" that can help you get your code up and running faster - some helpful bits of code to help you deal with some common issues.

Sifting through the repository is also a challenge; a basic category system is in place, but it’s hard to tell what you want when you don't know what's available. Here are some gems from the PEAR repository that you could really find useful.

The five that made his list are:

• Service_Akismet
• HTTP_Request
• Archive_Tar
• Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
• XML_Parser