Cristian Bichis sent along a message today reminding us about the unofficial Zend Framework forums that's been started over on zfforums.com:

This is the only forum dedicated to the Zend Framework (in English) and several users have already joined with lots of topics started including MVC, Zend_Db, Concepts related to the framework and Ideas about it and its future. So, join up yourself and talk with other Zend Framework developers at zfforums.com.

There's already some decent activity over there - around 120 members with over 350 posts going - not too bad considering they've just started up. Head on over, get yourself signed up and start participating in the discussion to help build these forums into a great resource for Zend Framework developers everywhere.

As mentioned in this new post to the Zend Developer Zone, the Zend Framework has been set up on an "unofficial PEAR channel" you can install the popular framework from.

The author, Geoffrey, with some help from Arnaud Limbourg, has created a PEAR channel to use in installing Zend Framework. As with any PEAR channel, the first thing you have to do is tell PEAR to go "discover" the channel.

Cal gives the simple commands to get the process underway, showing both how to discover and install the framework from this new resource.

According to this new post on the Zend Developer Zone today, Mike Potter from Adobe has announced an unofficial SDK linking PHP and the Adobe RIA technology for each application development.

Mike Potter our buddy over at Adobe, world class programmer and all around great guy, has announced his latest project The (unofficial) Adobe PHP SDK.

Cal also mentions some of the ways to help out and get involved with the SDK project including testing out the samples in the project and helping to improve the look of the samples already in the project.

You can get complete information about the SDK in this post from Mike's blog.

The Cake Baker (Daniel Hofstetter) has a quick post about a little unofficial something that those working with the CakePHP framework might want to check out.

Something missed by a lot of people is now live: a forum for CakePHP. It is run by a CakePHP user named "kain". At the moment it is still empty and needs to be filled with activity.

The forum is already starting to fill up - not a lot, but it's a start. It uses the Vanilla software to run the site.