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Recently I've been involved in a long discussion about the Zend Framework on the PHP Developers' Network forum. Our approach was to pick a simple application (we decided to borrow the Java BluePrints Pet Shop for J2EE) and starting from a basic "Hello World!" example for the Zend Framework work towards a fully functional example. Of course, one of our goals wasn't just to "do it", we wanted to explore the framework in greater detail, and identify how best to use, misuse, subclass, and where it was logical to even replace components should they prove deficient for our needs.

A very good article on php | architect writed by Mike Naberezny (from Zend Technologies), which shows for PHP professionals the goals of the Zend Framework, the main components, along with some short - but clear - samples for Zend_XmlRpc,Zend_PDF, Zend_Mail, Zend_Search classes.

Caching isn't one of those things that many people think of when designing their first applications. However once they launch their new AJAX enabled web2.0 application, they might start wondering what they can do to get this beast to move faster. The answer is caching.

Part two of my ongoing look at the View layer of the Zend Framework turns its attention to the topic of View Helpers. The Zend Framework manual provides a fairly narrow definition of its helpers which indicates they enable complex tasks, like generating form elements, to be extracted out of views into dedicated helpers. Here I'll try to explain in greater depth the View Helper pattern which is another of those patterns in the J2EE catalog, and which adds to the range of tasks View Helpers are capable of performing.

It's 4:30 AM, and I'm sitting in an airport lounge waiting for a flight to Brussels after accidentally bumping into Zeev and a couple of other guys (Amnon and Matti) from Zend, on their way to a management meeting in the US. Since they had to board, and I'm left all alone and still have an hour or so to pass, I'm going to share a nifty little thing I found in Zend Framework a couple of days ago: A nice and clean way to generate relative links in view scripts.

This article can be useful to anyone who is trying to add a PHP application, like WordPress or MediaWiki to the Web application that uses the Zend_Controller class, which is a part of Zend Framework.

This article covers the use of tagging within the Zend_Cache. It gives example code of how to implement Zend_Cache within your code and shows why you need a tag cloud and gives the code to build it.

Ce tutoriel est un exemple d'utilisation pour une authentification simple avec un login et un mot de passe. Il montre les points suivants : * création d'un adaptateur (utilisation de Zend_Auth_Result et Zend_Auth_Adapter_Interface) * utilisation de Zend_Auth * identification avec login/password * sauvegarde en session * logoff Ce code est épuré au maximum pour se concentrer sur Zend_Auth. Pour des raisons de sécurité, il faudrait valider avec Zend_Validate les données POST et GET envoyées au controller.