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Zend is planning to release a pre-release of the highly anticipated Zend Framework sometime in February. From what I heard Andi say on the Pro::PHP Podcast at some point there will be CVS access to the Zend Framework project (read-only I am sure).

I am really looking forward to getting to see the progress that has been made. Once the Zend Framework is released I am planning to sit down and give it a thorough review here on the CentreSource Blog. I am unclear if there will be CVS access with the Pre-Release of if that will be later.

Andi mentioned that the only part of the Zend Framework that is following Ruby on Rails is ActiveRecord. He was pretty adamant about Ruby not being a primary competitor of PHP, though I don’t know how the Zend Framework could not have Ruby on Rails as one of it’s primary competitors. He also said that the framework will not have an affect on the development of PHP itself. It surprises me that they can develop ActiveRecord in PHP and not be left wanting for meta-programming in PHP.

Check back here a couple of days after the pre-release for a full analysis (and much less speculation).