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Because I noticed some people find it difficult to understand the routing process the Zend Framework uses by default, I decided to write a little explanation. It’s really easy once you get the hang of it, even though it may seem complicated at first.

When I wrote the previous part of this review, covering the Registry and Database classes of the Zend Framework, the Framework was still at version 0.9.3 Beta. It has since reached version 1.0.0 Release Candidate, and interestingly enough, most of the changes affect the components I’ll be reviewing this time.

I've seen two articles describing how to integrate Smarty with Zend_View, Integrating Smarty with the Zend Framework at Zend Developer Zone and Zend Framework: Using Smarty as template engine at Dmytro Shteflyuk's blog. Both of these are very outdated by now. So here's take three on integrating Smarty with Zend_View, this time hopefully staying useful for a longer time since the Zend Framework has reached version 1 now.

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.

One thing I like about Grails (being based on rails, I assume it stems from thereÂ…) is that it allows quite easy definition of constraints that the model classes should adhere to.

Zend_Translate is the Zend Framework's solution for multilingual applications.

How to on building a feed reader with the Zend Framework, Smarty and HTML Ajax.

Until two weeks ago I hadnÂ’t bothered looking at the Zend Framework. I am a pragmatic programmer, and while I pride myself in being a technologist I rarely give a second glance at technologies that donÂ’t have an immediate application in my day-to-day programming.Zend Framework looked like an interesting platform, but each tutorial that I read started out with explaining how to set up your front controller, and moved form there into writing an entire application.

Demonstrates how to use ADODB with Zend_Auth by creating a custom Zend_Auth_Adapter class.

One could tweak Zend Framework's Router_Route to meet almost all your routing needs. But what if you want something beyond what that package can offer? You can make your routing dreams come true with making your own custom router, all you need to do is implement Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Interface (that's a mouth full).