Zend Framework, A Beginner's Guide

Zend Framework, A Beginner's Guide

by VikramVaswani (Author)

Synopsis

Aimed squarely at real-world PHP developers working against aggressive deadlines, Zend Framework: A Beginner's Guide teaches developers how to work smarter, by using the most popular open-source framework for PHP. Feature-rich, robust and mature, Zend Framework can simplify and shorten the application development cycle, reduce testing time, improve quality, and provide the developer with the extensibility, scalability and flexibility needed in today's competitive, rapidly-changing environment. This book shows how to maximize all the features of Zend Framework.

Zend Framework is to PHP what JavaServer Faces is to Java. Just as Java Server Faces: The Complete Reference is popular and useful for Java developers, Zend Framework: A Beginner's Guide will be the best guide for open source developers looking to develop web applications using PHP and the new Zend Framework.

Key Selling Features

  • Author is has been a well-known featured columnist with Zend Technologies since 2006. His columns are among the most popular on the Zend Technology community site.
  • Covers the most important components of the Zend Framework
  • Introduces MVC concepts and theory, and then demonstrates real-world implementation of the theory
  • Provides numerous projects and code examples
  • Companion website includes all of the code in the book

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Published: 01 Aug 2010

ISBN 10: 007163939X
ISBN 13: 9780071639392

Author Bio
Vikram Vaswani is the founder and CEO of Melonfire (http://www.melonfire.com/), a company specializing in software consultancy and content creation and syndication services. He is also the author of PHP Programming Solutions, How to do Everything with PHP and MySQL, and MySQL: The Complete Reference (all McGraw-Hill/Osborne titles) and XML and PHP (New Riders Publishing). He is also the author of numerous well-received articles on open-source technologies (including Perl, Python, XML and the very popular PHP 101 series), all written with the goal of making complex technologies accessible and understandable to novice users. He has been developing software since 1995, was first introduced to PHP in 1998, and hasn't looked back since. He is regular columnist with Zend Technologies (creators of PHP), as well as with IBM DeveloperWorks, CNET Builder.com, DevX.com and other OSS sites.