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Understanding the Zend Framework, Part 3: The feeds

Building the perfect reader

Tyler Anderson, Freelance Writer, Backstop Media
Tyler Anderson received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 2004 and his master's degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2005 from Brigham Young University. He worked with Stexar Corp. as a design engineer, R&D, from May 2005 to August 2006. Since his discovery by Backstop Media LLC in early 2005, he has written and coded numerous articles and tutorials for IBM developerWorks and DevX.com.

Summary:  This "Understanding the Zend Framework" series chronicles the building of an online feed reader, Chomp, while explaining the major aspects of using the recently introduced open source PHP Zend Framework. Parts 1 and 2 discuss the goals behind the Zend Framework and show you how to use it to create the beginnings of your online feed reader, creating a form and adding information to a database while getting to know the MVC pattern. In this tutorial, you will see how to use the Zend Framework to implement the online feed-reader portion of the application.

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Date:  18 Jan 2011 (Published 18 Jul 2006)
Level:  Intermediate
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Along with your newfound MVC skills and Zend database skills, you've become more comfortable with the MVC style with the added FeedController and associated views. You've also mastered the Zend_Feed class by retrieving RSS feeds from the Internet. Additionally, you've learned how to use helper functions of the Zend_Filter_Input class to help validate input data easily.

Part 4 shows where you'll use the Zend_HTTPClient class to retrieve and store entire articles (feed entries) in the database, and add subscribable websites that don't support RSS feeds into the feed-reader interface, whose contents will also be optionally savable into the database using the Zend_HTTPClient.

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