Zend Framework, A Beginner's Guide

by Vikram Vaswani

A practical guide to the Zend Framework

Perfect for real-world PHP developers working against aggressive deadlines, Zend Framework: A Beginner's Guide teaches you how to work smarter by taking full advantage of Zend Framework's extensibility, scalability, and flexibility. Learn how to use the Zend Framework to simplify and shorten the application development cycle, reduce testing time, and improve quality.

Zend Framework: A Beginner's Guide:

Is written by a featured columnist with Zend Technologies Covers the most important components of the Zend Framework Introduces MVC concepts and theory, and then demonstrates real-world implementation of the theory Provides numerous projects and code examples Offers all code from the book for download

Essential skills made easy
Basic Features; Basic Principles and Conventions; Models; Controllers and Views; Authentication, Access Control and Sessions; Routing; Error Handling; Advanced Features; XML; Ajax and JSON; Localization; Web Services; Performance Optimization

465 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 16, 2010

Reviews

[Alessandro Pellizzari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Il miglior manuale su Zend Framework che abbia letto finora. Con un linguaggio chiaro e semplice descrive i componenti principali del framework, sia con esempi dedicati che con un sito completo che si sviluppa durante tutto il libro. Unico difetto (che forse per alcuni è un pregio) è che usa Doctrine invece di Zend_Db, pertanto tutti gli esempi seguenti (paginazione, caching, ecc.) si basano su questo ORM e si perde quindi la trattazione come integrare alcuni moduli nativi. Naturalmente non copre tutti i componenti del framework, ma tratta quelli che servono nel 90% dei casi, spaziando anche su Dojo per AJAX.

[Jon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite detailed, but now out of date. Targeted at version 1, but now version 3 is released, lots of things have changed. I work with version 2 at this stage and use dependency injection via the service manager. Nevertheless, it is well written and engaging, with heaps of code samples.
Having finally finished this book, I can say it has lots of useful little tips and tricks about things that will probably prove useful at some stage.