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Zend_Db_Table does a great job of abstracting database tables, but it's really intended to hit one database per application. This tutorial demonstrates a method of using as many databases as you want by simply specifying them in your config file.

When working with views in the Zend Framework, you normally have a view for each action in your controllers. Each of the views run a view script, which then include header and footer views in them. This may lead to some repetitive code and may cause a problem if you want to modify the way the header and footer are included in your views. A better approach could be to use a "layout". A layour is a master view, perhaps similar to the master page in ASP.NET - it has the header, footer and all other code except the content. It effectively replaces the header and footer and is used to include the content (the action view script) inside itself instead of the action view script including the header and footer.

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.

The first part in a series on how to write a combination of a CMS and community with the Zend Framework and the Smarty templating system.

Shows how to use the Zend Controller with the PEAR package HTML_Ajax.

How to on building a feed reader with the Zend Framework, Smarty and HTML Ajax.

This tutorial describes how to use the Smarty templating engine and the Zend Framework in order to create easily portable widgets.

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.