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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)
Level:  Intermediate
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The Zend Framework was designed to provide an easy way to perform common actions in developing PHP applications. Its reliance on the MVC pattern takes a little bit of getting used to, but once you do, it opens up a lot of possibilities and organizes your code in such a way that programming becomes much less complex by separating code into controllers — organized by entity — and actions. Actions can call dynamically generated views.

The Zend Framework also provides components to make your programming life easier, including a database management class that simplifies the process of adding information to and retrieving information from the database.

In this tutorial, you built the basic framework of the Chomp online feed reader, putting into place the MVC pattern and creating a user registration and login system. In Part 3, you add the actual feeds to the application.

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