Zend Framework Resources

Those who are seriously considering to learn Zend Framework and looking for some resources to start with, I have a few links to share with them. But before you start learning any framework, you need to brush up your language and technical skills. Please, do remember, your framework might not guide and guard you from all practical challenges. You might need to add additional codes or extend the code base.

The approach: You should have Zend Framework latest version downloaded. There are two good books, I can recommend you to purchase, with which you can start your basic building blocks.

1. Surviving the deep end is an online book where the approach of the author is excellent. If you read the few chapters available there, you will gain some idea about the framework, the MVC model and a mind to start with.

2. Zend Framework in action is another book, on which you can depend a lot for the initial phases of coding. PHP|Architect’s Zend framework is also another book, which has some vaulable insights.

Once you have the initial concepts, have some idea about the basic APIs and usage of controllers like ZendDb, ZendAuth, ZendForm, ZendAcl, ZendView etc, the next approach will be to consult reference manual, API resources and online articles.

I know that point onwards you need no guidance, but for the initial start, the resources I provided are really good enough.