Pro Zend Framework Techniques: Build a Full CMS Project

Chapter 11. Advanced Topics

Over the course of this book, you have learned how to develop Zend Framework applications, working with many of the most commonly used components. In this chapter, I'll discuss some other components that will likely find a place in your day-to-day work.

Performance Tuning

When you are rapidly developing dynamic web applications, it is far too easy to get caught up in functionality at the expense of performance—or performance at the expense of functionality.

I often run into a common issue when I create a method in a model that runs a couple of queries and returns some sort of aggregated result. This in itself is not an issue. The issue comes up when you become complacent with regard to the number of queries that you are ...