What you’ll learn

• Install and configure the Zend Framework.
• Create your first Zend Framework web application.
• Explore controllers and actions, views, form creation, validation, and filtering.
• Build and access the database layer with Zend_Db.
• Develop a Send/Receive e–mail application using Zend_Mail.
• Integrate web services and feeds, and create and incorporate a search engine.
• Complete your web application by looking at performance optimization.

Who is this book for?

This book is for the beginning to intermediate Web developer who primarily uses PHP.

About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

Armando Padilla has over 10 years in the PHP community, and has contributed PHP development of asset management tools to both Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Saturday Night Live, and recently contributed to the Zend Frameworkâ€"powered Dundermifflininfinity.com social networking web site, an NBC.com project for The Office. He is currently an active PHP developer at Yahoo!, and is working on his MS in the computer science, semantic web, and data mining fields.