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This chapter explains how to create a storefront on your website using the Zend Framework. You will learn to implement a shopping cart which will allow the users of your website to select products edit and delete items.

Setting up the Zend Framework is easy even on shared hosts since no binaries need to be installed. But if you don't know the intricacies of Apache and PHP, certain requests can fail to work for seemingly no apparent reason.

Welcome back for another edition of Zend Framework Hidden Gems. Finally we start on the weird and wonderful world of database abstraction with PHP5, PDO and Zend.

Zend_Db_Table does a great job of abstracting database tables, but it's really intended to hit one database per application. This tutorial demonstrates a method of using as many databases as you want by simply specifying them in your config file.

in this tutorial, we will design a sample application for the zend framework, putting an emphasis on application design. Starting from the models we will work our way up to a more or less complete application.

In Part 8 of this series, we added Yahoo!, Amazon, and Flickr results to the Chomp application. Now we're going to improve performance by loading only the data the user requests, when the user requests it.

As I'm not very challenged by doing monotonic and repetitive work, as the building of custom controller and model classes of the Zend Framework is, I crafted an automation solution for these two tasks using Phing.

The tasks I wanted to automate were the creation of custom controller and model class by calling a build file. So I wrote two templates deriving from Zend_Controller_Action and Zend_Db_Table including some common methods used in all my controller/model classes like i.e. getModelInstance() in any custom Zend_Db_Table derivation.

Zend_Pdf module is a PDF (Portable Document Format) manipulation engine written entirely in PHP 5. It can load existing documents, create new, modify and save modified documents. Thus it can help any PHP-driven application dynamically prepare documents in a PDF by modifying existing template or generating document from a scratch.

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.

I recently needed to port some existing php code which used Ajax over to the Zend Framework. While there are several tutorials out there with lots of details, I didn’t find a simple example that would just get me started with how to work Ajax calls into the MVC framework architecture. Eventually, I figured things out by referring to several different tutorials and doing a good amount of Googling. I decided it might be useful to have a very simple example of porting an existing Ajax app to the Zend Framework.