Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional Fourth Edition

Chapter 24. Introducing the Zend Framework

Even at this likely early stage of your web development career, chances are you're already attempting to sketch out the features of a long-desired custom website. An e-commerce store, perhaps? An online community forum devoted to stamp collecting? Or maybe something a tad less interesting but nonetheless practical, such as a corporate intranet? Regardless of the purpose, you should always strive to use sound development practices. Using such de facto best practices has become so important in recent years that several groups of developers have banded together to produce a variety of web frameworks, each of which serves to help others develop web applications in a manner that's efficient, rapid, and representative ...