In a recent tutorial from the IBM developerWorks website they show you how to link your site with the Google Book search and parse the results with the Zend Framework's Zend_GData component.

This article will introduce you to the Google Book Search Data API, showing you how to integrate and use book search results with a custom PHP application. It includes examples of searching for books by keyword, by language or by author; retrieving book data (including ISBN numbers and thumbnail images); and adding reviews and ratings to books that are already in the database.

They start with an overview of how the search feeds are structured so you can get an idea of whether or not the returned information looks correct or not. From there they get into the code - parsing those feeds, sending search requests based on input strings, getting details on a specific book and pulling in the contents of a user's library.

The IBM developerWorks site has posted a new tutorial (written up by Vikram Vaswani) about integrating your application with the Google Calendar web service.

Google Calendar allows Web application developers to access user-generated content and event information through its REST-based Developer API. PHP's SimpleXML extension and Zend's GData Library are ideal for processing the XML feeds generated by this API and using them to build customized PHP applications. This article introduces the Google Calendar Data API, demonstrates how you can use it to browse user-generated calendars; add and update calendar events; and perform keyword searches.

As mentioned, the tutorial steps you through a pretty complete interface with the Google Calendar API - everything from fetching events, adding new ones and searching your current events. He uses the GCal library to interface with the API.

In a recently posted tutorial on the Zend Developer Zone website, Cal Evans has pointed out a video showing PHP pushing videos out to YouTube.

Attention all you Zend Framework junkies, Jochen Hartmann has uploaded a new video to YouTube that demonstrates the basics of how to use Zend Framework with the YouTube Data API. This step-by-step demonstration walks you though everything you need to know to upload files to Youtube via Zend Framework.

The video (from the official Google developers) shows the creation of a simple application that uses the Google Data component of the Zend Framework to upload the selected video from their local machine.

You can find out more about the Google API for YouTube on this page on the Google Code website.

Andi Gutmans of Zend has posted about the next step in his personal growth on the internet - a personal site/blog of his own over at andigutmans.com.

For years I've wanted to run a personal Web site but never found the time to do it. A couple of weeks ago a few Zenders and I started leasing a dedicated server which gave us each a bit more hosting flexibility. Once we got the machine up and running I decided it was finally time to actually launch my own personal Web site.

He lists the technologies he's using including the Zend Framework, the Zend_Gdata component and the Zend_Cache (for local caching of his blog feeds from Blogger).

As per the Zend Developer Zone today, the latest stable release of the Zend Framework has been posted for public download - version 1.0.2.

I am pleased to announce the release of Zend Framework 1.0.2, now available for download on the framework website. This release resolves 93 known issues and provides some minor additions to functionality, including: New database adapter for PDO_IBM, New Google Base support with Zend_Gdata_Gbase, Enhanced search performance and More flexible language translation facilities.

You can get a complete list of changes in the NEWS.txt file included with the download or from the issue tracker. They've also released a version of the Gdata project as well (a set of web services for read/write access to applications hosted at google.com).

As per the Zend Developer Zone today, the latest stable release of the Zend Framework has been posted for public download - version 1.0.2.

I am pleased to announce the release of Zend Framework 1.0.2, now available for download on the framework website. This release resolves 93 known issues and provides some minor additions to functionality, including: New database adapter for PDO_IBM, New Google Base support with Zend_Gdata_Gbase, Enhanced search performance and More flexible language translation facilities.

You can get a complete list of changes in the NEWS.txt file included with the download or from the issue tracker. They've also released a version of the Gdata project as well (a set of web services for read/write access to applications hosted at google.com).