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The Zend Framework allows for websites that are search engine friendly, although some thought needs to be taken when building your application. Besides creating a website that has a better chance of performing well with the search engines, these tips will also make your site friendly for visitors. Believe it or not, building a site that is search engine friendly can also yield usability benefits.

Zend_Controller_Plugin is not covered yet in the documentation but it is a powerful way of extending a controller. Briefly, Zend_Controller_Plugin is used for extending controller functionality by attaching listeners to events, which are fired (or trigged) by the controller classes.

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.

When building a web site or application there comes a moment when you will most likely need to implement access restrictions. Two parts come in to play, first there is authentication (ususally implemented as username/password combination) and then authorization (or permission) to make sure a user is allowed to do what he is trying to do.
LiveUser provides you with a framework to make it easy to implement both aspects. It has a container approach giving a lot of flexibility in writing your own schemes if the bundled ones do not meet your needs. All containers use a unified API that makes switching between containers as painless as possible.
We will see one way to integrate the Zend Framework Controller with LiveUser.

Like many other PHP developers, I have been playing with the new Zend Framework that is currently in the early stages of development. I have been building my entire homepage using it and these are some of my notes from a working with the current JSON, aka JavaScript Object Notation. Complete code for this example is available for download at the end of this article.

Part 1 of an excellent tutorial in 9 parts on IBM Developer Works blog.

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.

In parts 1 and 2, we discuss the goals behind the Zend Framework and show you how to use it to create the beginnings of our online feed reader, creating a form and adding information to a database while getting to know the MVC pattern. In this tutorial, you will see how to use the Zend Framework to implement the online feed reader portion of the application.

Not all sites have feeds, but it's still useful to track everything in one place. This article shows how to use the Zend_HTTP_Client module to create a proxy to pull data into the feed-reader interface. In this article, you will learn:
* How to use the Zend_HTTP_Client module to load Web-site data.
* How to save the full text of feed entries and that of Web pages not supporting feeds.
* How to read the full text of saved feed entries within the feed-reader interface.
At the end of this article, you will have completed the framework of the feed-reader application. First, modify the database schema, then update the code to support the new schema. Next, add the functionality to save feed entry and Web pages to the database. Finally, use Zend_HTTP_Client to allow users to optionally save the entries to the database and view them in your updated online feed reader.

Over the course of this tutorial, you will learn how to create a PDF document with the Zend Framework; use positioning within a PDF document; add text, graphics,shapes, and information to a PDF document; manage long blocks of text in a PDF document; and stream a dynamic PDF document to the browser.