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Yesterday RC1 of Zend Framework was released. I have been working away using it for several months and I have tried to give back small snippets of code as I went along. I had to do some work on my class that extends the Zend ACL and it reminded me how I like to approach coding as a whole. I am a strong believer in building in functionality that always goes beyond the base requirements. In this vain I always think how I can make every feature extendable beyond its natural life span.

This article contains a few examples on how to create and use data layer classes that was created by extending the Zend_Db_Table class from Zend Framework.

Building a CMS system looks like a big task to most. Especially when the CMS has to be a custom job. The Zend PHP Framework will make things a lot easier to code and to maintain.

Great tutorial made by Chris Shiflett for A/R/T. Main topics are: getting started with Zend Framework, Zend Controller, Zend View, Zend_InputFilter, Zend_DB, and not only, but mostly exposing Model View Controller architecture. You can learn here even how easy is to make a basic CMS using Zend Framework.

Shows how to use the Zend Controller with the PEAR package HTML_Ajax.

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.

Zend_Db_Table is a very, VERY handy class for working with databases. It has come up in numerous posts on this blog. But I’ve always felt that for a complete model implementation there was something missing.

When working with views in the Zend Framework, you normally have a view for each action in your controllers. Each of the views run a view script, which then include header and footer views in them. This may lead to some repetitive code and may cause a problem if you want to modify the way the header and footer are included in your views. A better approach could be to use a "layout". A layour is a master view, perhaps similar to the master page in ASP.NET - it has the header, footer and all other code except the content. It effectively replaces the header and footer and is used to include the content (the action view script) inside itself instead of the action view script including the header and footer.

A great overview over the Zend Framework, on PHPIT, covering all major compoenents. Even if it's related to the first public Zend Framework version it's a good startup for any new ZF developer. It has code samples for: Zend_Controller and Zend_View, Zend_DB, Zend_Feed, Zend_InputFilter.

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.