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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.

One of the best introductions to Zend Framework was made by Rob Allen. Is a tutorial (now as 19 pages PDF document, continuously updated to latest Zend Framework versions, an translated to multiple languages) with a sample aplication for making an inventory system to display a CD collection. It shows mostly how to be used Model View Controller in Zend Framework.

Welcome back for another edition of Zend Framework Hidden Gems. Finally we start on the weird and wonderful world of database abstraction with PHP5, PDO and Zend.

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.

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

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.

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.

The recent release of php 5.2.0, which includes by default an extension for converting php values from and to the JSON format, is a good occasion for comparing the different existing php libraries which aim to provide the same capabilities.

I've been working on Zend_XmlRpc_Server for some months now. In the past couple weeks, I've refactored it to push the class/function reflection into Zend_Server_Reflection, and, in doing so, noted that there were further areas for refactoring into additional helper classes. Currently, it now has classes for the Request, Response, and Faults, and all actual XML wrangling is done in those, making the server basically XML-agnostic.