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The Zend_Date component offers a detailed, but simple API for manipulating dates and times. Its methods accept a wide variety of types of information, including date parts, in numerous combinations yielding many features and possibilities above and beyond the existing PHP date related functions. For the very latest manual updates, please see our online manual (frequently synced to Subversion). Although simplicity remains the goal, working with localized dates and times while modifying, combining, and comparing parts involves some unavoidable complexity. Dates, as well as times, are often written differently in different locales. For example, some place the month first, while other write the year first when expressing calendar dates. For more information about handling localization and normalization, please refer to Zend_Locale .

The Zend_Loader class includes methods to help you load files dynamically.

I began work this week on my first project utilizing the Zend Framework. The Zend Framework, although still alpha, provides some time-saving features for PHP web application developers. The largest time-saving feature for me so far has been the Zend Controller component, which is the building block for the MVC pattern. Basically, it allows you to create controllers and handlers to process requests. For example, /admin/index gets mapped to the 'index' action of the 'admin' controller. Inside the code, all you have to do is create classes to represent each controller and functions in those classes to process the handlers. Each handler function simply outputs the desired data to the browser. Easy as pie.

There are different reasons for logging information, different strategies for what and how to log, and of course different ways of implementing it. This article will look at why you would want to log, what you want to log and how to do it.

In an earlier article "Gluing Ajax with the Zend Framework" I'm using a doclet called @ajaxaction to mark actions that are handling Ajax requests. If using the Prototype, jQuery or mootools libary, these requests differ from pure HTTP request by having a currently non-standard "X-Requested-With = XMLHttpRequest" header and their response mostly doesn't get rendered via a view. Unless you might use AXAH(Asychronous XHTML and HTTP) where the server might respond with snippets of XHTML to insert into the targeted DOM area.

One of the features that sets the Zend Framework apart from the others is the inclusion of a decent search module. Zend_Search_Lucene is a php port of the Apache Lucene project, a full-text search engine framework. Zend_Search_Lucene promises a simple way to add search functionality to an application without requiring additional php extensions or even a database.

This article explains how to use the Zend_Search module to search existing current and saved blog entries for a particular search term, and return ranked results. You will learn: * How to use the Zend_Search module and related classes to index and search data. * How to perform different types of simple and advanced searches using the Zend_Search module. At the end of this article, you will be able to search feed entries that have been saved in your feed reader. First, build a function that builds the search index and adds new content to the index. Next, create two actions that will provide the search functionality: search and viewSearchResults. The search action provides a form to perform searches, and the viewSearchResults action processes the input from the form and displays the ranked results to you.

Today I was toying around with new code architecture. Previously, how I might have implemented a Model would have been something similar to this:

Writed by Ben Ramsey, one of the most important members from Zend Framework team,there is a 26 slides (as PDF) designed for a quick presentation of Zend Framework. This presentation provides also some short code samples.