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Understanding the Zend Framework, Part 2: Model-View-Controller and adding a database

Building the perfect reader

Nicholas Chase (ibmquestions@nicholaschase.com), Consultant, Backstop Media

Nicholas Chase has been involved in Web-site development for companies such as Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He has been a high school physics teacher, a low-level radioactive waste facility manager, an online science fiction magazine editor, a multimedia engineer, an Oracle instructor, and the chief technology officer of an interactive communications company. He is the author of several books, including XML Primer Plus (Sams).

Tracy Peterson (tracy@tracypeterson.com), Freelance Writer, Freelance Developer

Tracy Peterson has worked as an IT project manager and Web developer since 1997 and most recently worked as an operations program manager on MSN Search at Microsoft. He is based in San Francisco.

Summary: This "Understanding the Zend Framework" series chronicles the building of an online feed reader, Chomp, while explaining the major aspects of using the open source PHP Zend Framework. Part 1 discusses the goals behind the Zend Framework, including easy-to-use components and an architecture based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. In Part 2, you will see how to use the Zend Framework to create the beginnings of the online feed reader, Chomp, creating a form and adding information to a database while getting to know the MVC pattern.

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Date: 24 Jan 2011 (Published 11 Jul 2006)
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The Zend Framework website maintains the latest documentation.
To better understand the goals of the feed-reader project, read "Introduction to Syndication, (RSS) Really Simple Syndication," by Vincent Luria.
The PHP Function Reference is another great resource.
Thought Storms ModelViewController explains the MVC and the controversy and confusion surrounding it.
The phpPatterns Web site explains MVC from the PHP point of view.
Learn more about Zend Core for IBM, a seamless, easy-to-install, and supported PHP development and production environment that features integration with DB2 and Informix databases.
Implement SOAP services with the Zend Framework (Vikram Vaswani, developerWorks, May 2010): Check out this article on using SOAP Web services with the Zend Framework.
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