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Zend_Json provides convenience methods for serializing native PHP to JSON and decoding JSON to native PHP.
JSON, JavaScript Object Notation, can be used for data interchange between JavaScript and other languages. Since JSON can be directly evaluated by JavaScript, it is a more efficient and lightweight format than XML for exchanging data with JavaScript clients.

I've been working on Zend_XmlRpc_Server for some months now. In the past couple weeks, I've refactored it to push the class/function reflection into Zend_Server_Reflection, and, in doing so, noted that there were further areas for refactoring into additional helper classes. Currently, it now has classes for the Request, Response, and Faults, and all actual XML wrangling is done in those, making the server basically XML-agnostic.

Writed by Ben Ramsey, one of the most important members from Zend Framework team,there is a 26 slides (as PDF) designed for a quick presentation of Zend Framework. This presentation provides also some short code samples.

A tutorial about using Zend_Translate to write multilingual applications

I have done my fair amount of hacking PHP applications. In that time, I have come across many poor programming practices that have caused me to almost lose my mind. One that really grinds my gears is overuse of global variables.

Zend_Mail provides generalized functionality to compose and send both text and MIME-compliant multipart e-mail messages. Mail can be sent with Zend_Mail via the php built-in mail() function or via direct SMTP connection.

The Zend Framework allows for websites that are search engine friendly, although some thought needs to be taken when building your application. Besides creating a website that has a better chance of performing well with the search engines, these tips will also make your site friendly for visitors. Believe it or not, building a site that is search engine friendly can also yield usability benefits.

Zend class has now gone! This is good news as the Zend class was schizophrenic and provided functions responsible for file loading, registry, debugging and version information! Another side effect is that the entire Zend Framework is stored within the Zend directory making those who use svn:externals on their lib directory happier.

Implement multiple language support using the Zend Framework. This system will automatically detect what the likely language the user would be wanting to see and also allows them to change the language at anytime.

Zend_Cache provides a generic way to cache any data.

Caching in Zend Framework is operated by frontends while cache records are stored through backend adapters (File, Sqlite, Memcache...) through a flexible system of IDs and tags. Using those, it is easy to delete specific types of records afterwards (for example: "delete all cache records marked with a given tag").