About this book
In 2005, Andi Gutmans of Zend Technologies announced Zend’s PHP Collaboration Project, and with it launched Zend Framework. By March 2006, there was some initial code, and version 1.0 was released in July 2007 with regular releases since then. Zend Framework has provided PHP with a high-quality framework that is different from most others due to its use-at-will philosophy, allowing the developer to pick and choose which parts to use for any given project.
This book shows how to use Zend Framework to your best advantage, and the techniques are demonstrated on an example website that is developed over the course of the book. We look at the major components of Zend Framework and show how to use each one in the context of a real-world application. As a result, this book supplements the online manual’s functional view of the framework by showing you how it all fits together, allowing you to produce high-quality websites and applications.
This book is for PHP developers who want to or are using Zend Framework. As Zend Framework has a use-at-will philosophy, not all chapters will be useful to every reader immediately. However, we believe that all readers will gain something from every chapter, even if you have to read it again to pick up the details when you start using that component!