Freshman's Guide to Zend Framework

(click to enlarge) Zend Framework is labeled to be the official PHP framework and it is emerging as one of the most powerful web frameworks on the Internet. The increase in demand for Zend Framework in the industry represents a huge opportunity for developers and companies.

Freshman's Guide to Zend Framework is an attempt to teach you the basics of Zend Framework. This book is the starting point for anyone wanting to learn how to build dynamic web applications using the latest release of the Zend Framework. It will tell you how to create an application from scratch using MySQL as the backend database and how to make use of some of its basic components such as Zend_Auth, Zend_ACL etc.

What you'll learn:

How to manually setup Zend Framework on a Linux machine.

How to use the Zend Framework for developing web applications with an IDE (Netbeans)

How to Add Ajax and visual effects to create rich user interfaces using jQuery.

How to develop dynamic web applications with Zend Framework like Blog, CMS and Shopping Cart.

How to create your own Action, Form helpers and Components.

Who is this book for?

Though not version specific, this book is an ideal read if you have had some decent knowledge in core PHP / MySQL and now want to get your hands dirty with a framework.