PHP Zen with Zend

Exploring the Zend FrameworkNathan Porter 2008

What is the Zend Framework?• Web Application Framework

– Code Libraries– Object Oriented

• Open Source• PHP5• MVC design• It’s RAD

– Rapid– Application– Development

Why Zend?

• Standardized PHP• Allows developer to focus on functionality

instead of code• Modular design• Well Documented• Dozens of useful pre-coded components• Contains parts of available API’s like

Google• List of Components

Zend: Who Uses it?

• SourceForge– OpenId (Zend OpenId)

• Fox Interactive– IGN.com– RottenTomatoes.com– AskMen.com

• IBM– QEDWiki

Zend: Getting Started

• Zend is already set up at Plymouth on www, www2, and turing

• For personal development, Zend needs to be set up on the web server

• Download Zend Framework

• A great example of setting up Zend Applications

Zend vs PHP: Zend_Date

Yesterday With Zend Yesterday with PHP

• Breakdown– Same goal– Less code for operation– More Precision– More functionality with dates

Zend vs PHP: Zend Mail

Mail With Zend Mail With PHP

• Breakdown– Same goal– Potentially more code– Object Oriented style more apparent– More functionality with mail

Using Zend: Zend_Feed

• Functionality for consuming RSS and Atom Feeds

• Pre-built to handle most feed syntax

• Object Oriented

– Zend_Feed::import()

• Try/catch error handling

– Zend_Feed_Exception

• Documentation

Zend Studio: A Zend IDE

• Pros– Syntax Highlighting– Fast Zend App Creation– Auto Complete

• Cons– Big– Need Project Base– Expensive: $799 to $990

Works Cited

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zend_Framework• Framework Manual:

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/• Zend Framework Wiki:

http://framework.zend.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=10530

• Zend: http://www.zend.com/en/• Zend Framework Tutorials: http://www.zftutorials.com/• Zend Application Setup:

http://mitchellhashimoto.com/zend-framework-tutorials/getting-started/