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Overview

Design, develop, and deploy feature-rich PHP web applications with this MVC framework

  • Create powerful web applications by leveraging the power of this Model-View-Controller-based framework

  • Learn by doing – create a "real-life" storefront application

  • Covers access control, performance optimization, and testing

  • Best practices, as well as debugging and designing discussion

In Detail

The Zend Framework has a flexible architecture that lets you build modern web applications and web services easily. The MVC components make the maintenance and testing of your applications easier. However, it is not only an MVC framework for developers. It also provides an easy-to-use high-quality component library that is designed to be used the way you want, picking up specific components without requiring the use of whole framework.

It's easy to get started and produce a powerful and professional looking web site when you've got this book to hand. Taking you through a real-life application, it covers the major Zend Framework components, as well as throwing light on the best practices and design issues faced when building complex MVC applications.

This book takes you through detailed examples as well as covering the foundations you will need to get the most out of the Zend Framework. From humble beginnings you will progress through the book and slowly build upon what you have learned previously. By the end, you should have a good understanding of the Zend Framework, its components, and the issues involved in implementing a Zend Framework based application.

Subscriber Reviews

Average Rating: 2 out of 5 rating Based on 1 Rating

"Somewhat muddled" - by sbo on 30-APR-2011
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Chapters 1 and 2 are fine guiding you through step by step.  However once you get to chapter 3 it just seems to go off the rails diverging from what you were shown in previous chapters.  It introduces other topics such as ANT which you're told to install and copy the scripts from the downloads.  Here's the catch you probably won't want to learn two things at once and the ANT scripts didn't work this mixed in with the fact that you're already lost by the sudden change of process from previous chapters leaves you frustrated and looking for another book.
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