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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.

In parts 1 and 2, we discuss the goals behind the Zend Framework and show you how to use it to create the beginnings of our online feed reader, creating a form and adding information to a database while getting to know the MVC pattern. In this tutorial, you will see how to use the Zend Framework to implement the online feed reader portion of the application.

In Part 1 of this "Understanding the Zend Framework" series, we discuss the goals behind the Zend Framework, including easy-to-use components and an architecture based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. Now we start to actually put that to use. In this tutorial, you will see how to use the Zend Framework to create the beginnings of our online feed reader, Chomp, creating a form and adding information to a database while getting to know the MVC pattern.

Part 1 of an excellent tutorial in 9 parts on IBM Developer Works blog.

Like many other PHP developers, I have been playing with the new Zend Framework that is currently in the early stages of development. I have been building my entire homepage using it and these are some of my notes from a working with the current JSON, aka JavaScript Object Notation. Complete code for this example is available for download at the end of this article.

When building a web site or application there comes a moment when you will most likely need to implement access restrictions. Two parts come in to play, first there is authentication (ususally implemented as username/password combination) and then authorization (or permission) to make sure a user is allowed to do what he is trying to do.
LiveUser provides you with a framework to make it easy to implement both aspects. It has a container approach giving a lot of flexibility in writing your own schemes if the bundled ones do not meet your needs. All containers use a unified API that makes switching between containers as painless as possible.
We will see one way to integrate the Zend Framework Controller with LiveUser.