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From rather humble beginnings as the Personal Home Page scripting language, PHP has found its way into almost every server, corporation, and dev shop in the world. On an average day, somewhere between 500,000 and 2 million coders do something in PHP. Even when you use a well-understood language like PHP, building a modern web application requires tools that decrease development time and cost while improving code quality. Frameworks such as Ruby-on-Rails and Django have been getting a lot of attention as a result.
For PHP coders, the Zend Framework offers that same promise without the need to move away from PHP. This powerful collection of components can be used in part or as a whole to speed up the development process. Zend Framework has the backing of Zend Technologies; the driving force behind the PHP programming language in which it is written. The first production release of the Zend Framework became available in July of 2007.
Zend Framework in Action is a comprehensive tutorial that shows how to use the Zend Framework to create web-based applications and web services. This book takes you on an over-the-shoulder tour of the components of the Zend Framework as you build a high quality, real-world web application. This book is organized around the techniques you'll use every day as a web developer "data handling, forms, authentication, and so forth. As you follow the running example, you'll learn to build interactive Ajax-driven features into your application without sacrificing nuts-and-bolts considerations like security and performance.
This book is aimed at the competent PHP developer who wants to master framework-driven web development. Zend Framework in Action goes beyond the docs but still provides quick access to the most common topics encountered in the development of web applications.
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Rob Allen is a full-time PHP developer and contributor to the Zend Framework, developing the Zend_Config component. He has also written a popular getting-started tutorial available from www.akrabat.com. Rob is the Technical Director of Big Room Internet.
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My issue with this book is not that it does not cover enough of the framework but that the content of the book does not cover all the code of needed to get the example site up and running. For example following chapters 3 and 4 does not result in the same code (in many areas) as is included in the downloadable source code. This means its very hard to just follow the book and get things up and running (although the downloadable code does work) and this makes it difficult to fully understand what you need to do in order to create your own ZF web application.
I really wish the authors / publishers had opted to cover all the code needed to make the site work within the book rather than covering about 60% of the code in the book and leaving the reader to look up the other 40% in the source code available from the website.
Therefore I would have to say that this book is okay for those who are happy to explor the code alongside the book but if you are new to PHP and the ZF you may want to look at other options.
As a PHP developer I've been aware of the Zend Framework for a number of years, but haven't until recently started to use it in anger. This book helped me make the leap.
The book takes the reader through the development and progression of an application, which they also use to illustrate a number of best practices.
The book came across as being well structured and thought out, and provided good explanations of "new things" at the appropriate place.
The Zend Framework contains a wide number of different components, and the book manages to cover a large number of them. Clearly it can't cover each in full detail - but it does more than enough to make the reader aware of what the various components can do.
If you are looking for an entry level book to learn about Zend Framework then do not buy this as it will more than likely confuse you and put you off.
There aren't many (if any) other books that you could buy instead of this at the time of writing. I will be waiting for Beginning Zend Framework (Apress) hoping its a lot better than this.
Unfortunately, the book is not updated, the Zend Framework advances rather quickly and certain things are done now completely different... Read more
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