A practical guide to the Zend Framework Perfect for real-world PHP developers working against aggressive deadlines, Zend Framework: A Beginner's Guide teaches you how to work smarter by taking full advantage of Zend Framework's extensibility, scalability, and flexibility. Learn how to use the Zend Framework to simplify and shorten the application development cycle, reduce testing time, and improve quality. Zend Framework: A Beginner's Guide : Is written by a featured columnist with Zend Technologies Covers the most important components of the Zend Framework Introduces MVC concepts and theory, and then demonstrates real-world implementation of the theory Provides numerous projects and code examples Offers all code from the book for download Essential skills made easy Basic Features; Basic Principles and Conventions; Models; Controllers and Views; Authentication, Access Control and Sessions; Routing; Error Handling; Advanced Features; XML; Ajax and JSON; Localization; Web Services; Performance Optimization