From rather humble beginnings as the Personal Home Page scripting
language, PHP has found its way into almost every server, corporation,
and dev shop in the world. On an average day, somewhere between 500,000
and 2 million coders do something in PHP. Even when you use a
well-understood language like PHP, building a modern web application
requires tools that decrease development time and cost while improving
code quality. Frameworks such as Ruby-on-Rails and Django have been
getting a lot of attention as a result.
For PHP coders, the Zend Framework offers that same promise without the
need to move away from PHP. This powerful collection of components can
be used in part or as a whole to speed up the development process. Zend
Framework has the backing of Zend Technologies; the driving force behind
the PHP programming language in which it is written. The first
production release of the Zend Framework became available in July of
2007.
Zend Framework in Action is a comprehensive tutorial that shows how to
use the Zend Framework to create web-based applications and web
services. This book takes you on an over-the-shoulder tour of the
components of the Zend Framework as you build a high quality, real-world
web application. This book is organized around the techniques you'll use
every day as a web developer data handling, forms, authentication, and
so forth. As you follow the running example, you'll learn to build
interactive Ajax-driven features into your application without
sacrificing nuts-and-bolts considerations like security and performance.
This book is aimed at the competent PHP developer who wants to master
framework-driven web development. Zend Framework in Action goes beyond
the docs but still provides quick access to the most common topics
encountered in the development of web applications.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and
Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
