Zend Framework, A Beginner's Guide

Vikram Vaswani

Aug 2010 · McGraw Hill Professional

About this ebook

Essential Skills--Made Easy!

Leverage the power of the Zend Framework to supercharge your PHP development! Zend Framework: A Beginner's Guide covers key features, including model-view-controller implementation, routing, input validation, internationalization, and caching, and shows you how to use them in a practical context. The book walks you through the process of building a complete Web application with the Zend Framework, starting with the basics and then adding in more complex elements, such as data pagination and sorting, user authentication, exception handling, localization, and Web services. Debugging and performance optimization are also covered in this fast-paced tutorial.

Designed for Easy Learning

• Key Skills & Concepts--Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
• Ask the Expert--Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
• Try This--Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills
• Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered
• Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
• Cautions--Errors and pitfalls to avoid
• Annotated Syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated

Read-to-use code at www.zf-beinners-guide.com and www.mhprofessional.com/computingdownload.

Ratings and reviews

This is not a book for beginners of any kind. I am 2 chapters in, and I have spent 95% of my time googling problems I come across in the tutorials. The tutorials skim over what you are suppose to be doing too quickly, and when the steps don't work, you wont be sure what you were even trying to accomplish, let alone what the problem might be.

nive

About the author

Vikram Vaswani is the founder and CEO of Melonfire (www.melonfire.com/), a company specializing in software consultancy and content creation and syndication services. He is the author of PHP Programming Solutions, How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL, and MySQL: The Complete Reference.