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Zend Framework in Action (Paperback)

by Rob Allen (Author), Nick Lo (Author), Steven Brown (Author)
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  • Paperback: 425 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications (28 Dec 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1933988320
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933988320
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.5 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,658 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.

About the Author
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.

Nick Lo is a web designer, developer, partner, and general "wearer of many hats" with Ingredients, located in Byron Bay, Austrailia. He was an early participant in the Zend Framework community and has published several popular tutorials.

Steven Brown is Head of Technology for New Beach Media where he oversees design, development, operations, and infrastructure. He specializes in critical thinking and analysis of mechanical and logical systems.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction, 23 Jan 2009
By David Goodwin (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
I found this book provided an excellent introduction to the Zend Framework, and I would recommend it to anyone looking to save time when starting with the framework.

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.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Book only covers about 60% of the code!, 25 May 2009
By R. Myers (Cumbria, UK) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book in the hope it would help me get my head around the Zend Framework what with their being few books out there on ZF. Having gotten started working through the book I have come to notice a very important problem with the book and anyone looking for a complete book on the topic.

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.
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2.0 out of 5 stars A solid understanding of OO PHP required..., 7 May 2009
By pondlife "pondlife" (Berkshire, UK) - See all my reviews
I have been writing procedural PHP for a few years but I wouldn't say I was good at it. I believed that this book would help me to achieve more with PHP by showing me how to use the Zend Framework. Unfortunately I feel that you need a good, solid understanding - and experience with - writing object-oriented coding before you can really understand the Zend Framework and this book.

Another thing that I feel let down by are the amount of typo's and code errors - the online forum for the book is very busy with readers of the book supplying solutions - but the errata section of the publishers site isn't complete.

I have now purchased "PHP Objects, Patterns, & Practice 2nd Edition" by Matt Zandstra (yes the title has an extra comma where it shouldn't be!) and "Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP (Expert's Voice)" by Quentin Zervaas to help me learn PHP. When I've read both of these I will re-read "Zend Framework in Action" and hopefully I'll find it more useful...
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