Tag archives: PHP

ZF Tutorial 3 – The Model

In the last post of this series I covered some basic groundwork on the MVC architecture. I briefly went over the three layers and what the role of each one is in an application. In this post I intend to give a more in-depth overview of the model.

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ZF Tutorial 2 – Model-View-Controller

Model-view-controller (MVC). What is it? What does it do? Is it helpful to web development? All valid questions. And questions this post will try to answer. To learn the Zend Framework it is imperative that you understand the theory behind MVC and how the architecture pattern works.

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ZF Tutorial 1- Introduction

Welcome to the Zend Framework Blog application tutorial series. I’m writing this series because for one I enjoy writing but also as hopefully a help to the open source community. I’ve taken much from the open source community over the years but besides a few bug patches and some help on documentation I haven’t really given back much. So this is an attempt to do that as well as to teach somebody step by step from the beginning how to create an application with the Zend Framework.

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Tutorial Series Brief Overview

As I’ve alluded to in earlier posts I have a tutorial series coming up. I will be writing a blog application with the Zend Framework. Yes i know there’s Wordpress but this to me is an interesting project to undertake. It also helps that almost everybody understands what a blog is and can therefore picture the finished application in there mind.

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On Frameworks

PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, etc etc etc. All are languages. All are used in web development. All have zealous patriots, and all have zealous haters. Continue reading