Pro Zend Framework Techniques Build a Full CMS Project [Paperback]

The Zend Framework is a truly amazing PHPbased web application development framework and platform that is breathing new life into PHP development. One of the most common uses for a framework such as this is to build contentdriven web sites.

Pro Zend Framework Techniques offers:

• A structured guide for PHP developers, ultimately helping you to create more flexible software much more quickly
• Clear guidance through the entire process of building a custom content management system (CMS) with the Zend Framework
• The ideal example project, building a CMS, to illustrate how to use the many different aspects of the framework

The Zend Framework is one of todays most popular PHP-based Web application development frameworks. This book is a guide to learning and using the Zend Framework in building a real-world Content Management System application top to bottom.

Zend Framework has been designed from the ground up to make PHP development as easy  and fun  as possible while promoting best practices and providing an extensible framework for complex applications. Content management systems are a particularly important class of applications  after all, serving content is what the web does best. As the project lead of the Digitalus CMS project, a commercial CMS built on Zend Framework, Forrest Lyman is particularly well-qualified to guide the reader through the involved process of building a full-fledged CMS. This book reflects the best practices that we have discovered with the help of the Zend Framework community over the last four years. Forrest brings our MVC components to life, while describing data persistence in detail using Zend_Db_Table and MySQL. Essential components for CMSs, such as Zend_Search_Lucene and Zend_Feed, are used to develop ZF modules to implement practical use cases. Finally, he covers advanced toplÃF