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The first part of excelent tutorial on creating an ajax chat system using MySQL and the Zend Framework.

While getting the hang of the Zend_Controller_RewriteRouter, which is now included in Zend Framework 0.1.5, I was adding the routes in my index.php (bootstrap) file and wondered if there was any way of storing them elsewhere. It is possible to loop over Zend_Controller_RewriteRouter::addRoutes() but the method I will describe here is based on some recent updates to Zend_Controller_RewriteRouter by its author Michael Minicki.

The Zend Framework offers a pretty slick solution for accessing Amazon's Web Services. For this reason, I decided to adopt it for my project. Using its Amazon Service component in conjunction with a few others that are packaged with the framework, I created the application in almost no time at all. Here, my article recounts how I went about creating this application and shows you just how rapidly you can create applications using this wonderful solution.

One of the incubator projects in the Zend Framework is Zend_Db_Xml. Zend_Db_Xml, also known as the XML Content Store (XCS), allows web applications that use XML data to easily update, save, and otherwise manage this data. In this article I will introduce the XCS persistence API and discuss an implementation using IBMÂ’s DB2 9 database with its pureXML technology. Finally, IÂ’ll discuss a sample social networking application to show how easy and fun it is to develop XML-centric applications using the XCS.

If youÂ’re like me youÂ’ve probably followed the Askeet tutorial on Search in order to create a decent search engine for your web app. ItÂ’s fairly straight forward, but they hinted that when Zend Search Lucene (ZSL) is released, that might be the way to go. Well we are in luck, ZSL is available, so letÂ’s just dive right in. If you arenÂ’t using symfony have a look at this article from the Zend Developer Zone. It covers just enough to get you started. If you are using symfony, just follow along and weÂ’ll get you where you need to go.

This article explains how to use the Zend_Search module to search existing current and saved blog entries for a particular search term, and return ranked results. You will learn: * How to use the Zend_Search module and related classes to index and search data. * How to perform different types of simple and advanced searches using the Zend_Search module. At the end of this article, you will be able to search feed entries that have been saved in your feed reader. First, build a function that builds the search index and adds new content to the index. Next, create two actions that will provide the search functionality: search and viewSearchResults. The search action provides a form to perform searches, and the viewSearchResults action processes the input from the form and displays the ranked results to you.

In this article, we will be sending two types of e-mail messages. The first is a simple text-based e-mail that simply lists the feeds to which a user has subscribed that have been updated since the user last read them. The second is an e-mail that actually sends the new posts that have arrived since the last time the user read a particular feed. We will first update the database so every feed has an accurate last-updated value. We'll also update subscribed feeds with a last-pulled value when the reader views them. Finally, we'll create the routine that compares these dates, creates the e-mail messages, and sends them

Over the course of this tutorial, you will learn how to create a PDF document with the Zend Framework; use positioning within a PDF document; add text, graphics,shapes, and information to a PDF document; manage long blocks of text in a PDF document; and stream a dynamic PDF document to the browser.

Not all sites have feeds, but it's still useful to track everything in one place. This article shows how to use the Zend_HTTP_Client module to create a proxy to pull data into the feed-reader interface. In this article, you will learn: * How to use the Zend_HTTP_Client module to load Web-site data. * How to save the full text of feed entries and that of Web pages not supporting feeds. * How to read the full text of saved feed entries within the feed-reader interface. At the end of this article, you will have completed the framework of the feed-reader application. First, modify the database schema, then update the code to support the new schema. Next, add the functionality to save feed entry and Web pages to the database. Finally, use Zend_HTTP_Client to allow users to optionally save the entries to the database and view them in your updated online feed reader.