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Understanding the Zend Framework, Part 8: Adding related information and services

Sean Kelly (skelly@idsociety.com), Web Application Developer, ID Society
Sean Kelly graduated with a degree in mathematics from Reed College. He is currently a Web application developer for ID Society, a full-service Internet marketing agency in New York City. He is a supporter of open source content management systems, and contributes to Joomla! and the Wikipedia project.

Summary:  In previous parts of this "Understanding the Zend Framework" series, you created the basic application, the Chomp online feed reader, using the open source PHP Zend Framework. This tutorial, the eighth part of the series, adds an extra dimension to your feed reader by linking the online resources of Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Twitter and Flickr with your current application to create a robust mashup.

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Date:  18 Jan 2011 (Published 29 Aug 2006)
Level:  Intermediate
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As large web services provided by companies like Amazon, Flickr, Yahoo!, Twitter, Google and others become more commonplace, the web will continue to see enormous growth in number of innovative mashups. Books and photos are only the beginning. APIs for traffic info, sports scores, market prices, restaurant reviews, ski conditions, and much more will become easier to apply to your web application. Or perhaps you'll be inspired to start your own web services, potentially driving traffic and press to your site. But whatever your motivation, understanding that providing a RESTful service can, in many circumstances, be the best way to get a wider acceptance of your product.

You now have all the tools you need to integrate the Zend_Services package with your own project. As the Zend Framework matures, there will certainly be improvements and additions that will make it easier than ever to make your own mashup, the way you've done here with the Chomp feed reader. Remember the key points:

  • Identify the keywords you can pass to the service
  • Integrate the service into your controller
  • Construct a view that allows you to reuse the service in other places of your site

In Part 9, the final part of this series, you will use Ajax to retrieve and display the results gathered here, which will streamline the user's experience with Chomp.

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