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2 Responses to “Php|architect’s Guide to Programming with Zend Framework”

1. Ximena on August 4th, 2009

   Don’t waste your time/money on this book. Although it’s not intrinsically a bad book, it is simply not very useful for developing web applications with Zend Framework. Firstly, it is already out of date, despite only being published in January 2008, as it fails to cover many of the new features of Zend Framework 1. 5, and even the topics it does look at are not covered particularly thoroughly. Examples tend to be fragmentary, with important information either buried in the main text or not provided at all, so you will need to download the code and rummage through it in order to figure out how it’s all supposed to work. There are also lots of blank pages and whitespace, so there is substantially less to this book than meets the eye, in all respects. It will tell you some useful stuff if you’re new to ZF (hence the somewhat grudging two stars), but nothing you can’t find done better or more cheaply elsewhere. If you really need to get started with ZF right now, I recommend starting with the video tutorials available on the ZF website to get the basic concepts, as well as the written tutorials on the same website. Then try Rob Allen’s online ZF tutorials at http://akrabat. com, plus liberal use of Google to find the answers to specific questions as you go along. Also, try Quentin Zervaas’s book Practical Web 2. 0 Applications with PHP (Expert’s Voice) as it provides a good intro to ZF (slightly out of date but no worse than this book) plus lots of useful material on Web 2. 0 PHP development. And PHP in Action: Objects, Design, Agility: Modern Software Practices for PHP will give you a thorough introduction to the wider concepts of using OOP and frameworks with PHP. Or wait for Rob Allen’s ZF book Zend Framework in Action which is due out shortly. Any of the above options is a better use of your time and money than the Cal Evans book.

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