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This article explains how to create a custom route and a custom router that use the database to determine which controller will be used. This is used because the writer wants to use short URLs like site.com/page and re-use controllers for multiple page-types in a CMS.

One of the things we introduced in the new client is the “connection adapters”: The idea is that there is a different object in charge of performing the actual communication with the server. This “adapter” object can be replaced, and this way you get the same interface (the Zend_Http_Client interface), with a different method to connect to the server.

Zend FrameworkÂ’s View class has very bad capability for extending. It contains template variables but does not allow to access them, it has array with different pathes (templates, filters), but does not allow to add another type or access them. Therefor only way to use Smarty with Zend Framework is to abandon Zend_View and manipulate Smarty object directly.

This is a very quick tutorial on how to allow developers to develop using the Zend Framework without having to or being able to install PDO on their servers. I have to warn you though, this is not an official extension of the Zend Framework just yet.

Up until this point, I haven't discussed any of the additional helper packages that Zend Framework provides. This is because my focus has been to use as little as possible of the framework and focus as much as possible on the components. However, since we've gone through a couple of the packages, it's time to introduce the top level Zend Framework Class.

Is Zend_Config suited for all your needs? Probably not and it is not supposed to. Yet you might have some peculiar project requirements. For example, you might want to use pre-defined PHP constants in your ini or xml configuration files. Let's find out how that could be done.

Zend_Config approaches the concept of managing configuration data with two focuses; Simplicity, and a Driver-based backend.

The Zend_Validate component provides a set of commonly needed validators. It also provides a simple validator chaining mechanism by which multiple validators may be applied to a single datum in a user-defined order.

For an upcoming project I intend implementing a RESTful web service. Back a few months ago when tinkering with the idea of a Technorati class for the Zend Framework, a reply from Davey Shafik highlighted the existence of a Zend_Rest_Client proposal. That proposal has since been implemented, and is now available from the Framework's incubator directory. Also available is the focus of this tutorial - Zend_Rest_Server.