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If you're interested in learning more about the Zend Framework, take a moment to visit the following links, many of which offer deeper insight into the topics discussed in the book:

Chapter 1

• The official Zend Framework Web site
• The Zend Framework community wiki
• Zend Framework usage statistics
• Zend Framework case studies
• Zend Framework components
• The Zend Framework CLI
• The Zend Framework filesystem layout
• The Zend Framework development roadmap

Chapter 2

• Wikipedia's discussion of Model-View-Controller architecture
• The basics of the Zend Framework's MVC implementation
• The Zend Framework router
• The Zend Framework front controller
• The Zend Framework layout engine
• A discussion of building a modular application with the Zend Framework (Jeroen Keppens)
• A discussion of using per-module layouts in the Zend Framework wiki and forums
• The Zend Framework directory layout
• The Zend Framework coding standard

Chapter 3

• Wikipedia's discussion of CSRF and XSS attacks
• Wikipedia's discussion of CAPTCHAs
• Wikipedia's discussion of fluent interfaces
• The Zend Framework autoloader
• The Zend_Form component
• The Zend_Filter component
• The Zend_Validate component
• The Zend_Mail component
• A discussion of creating custom decorators (Matthew Weier O'Phinney)

Chapter 4

• The official Doctrine Web site and manual
• An introduction to Doctrine models
• Information on how to express database relationships using Doctrine models
• Sample queries using Doctrine
• Wikipedia's discussion of the ActiveRecord pattern
• Wikipedia's discussion of Object Relational Mapping
• The Zend_Filter_Input component
• The Bootstrap class
• A discussion of the DataMapper pattern (Martin Fowler)
• A discussion of the Anemic Domain Model (Martin Fowler)
• Current thinking on the "fat models, skinny controllers" approach (Jamis Buck and Chris Hartjes)
• A discussion of autoloading Doctrine and Doctrine models in the context of a Zend Framework application (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Eric Leclerc)

Chapter 5

• The Zend_Layout component
• The Zend_Auth component
• A more sophisticated Doctrine authentication adapter (Jason Eisenmenger and David Werner)
• A discussion of creating simple, extensible CRUD with the Zend Framework (Ryan Mauger)
• A discussion of creating composite date input elements (Matthew Weier O'Phinney)
• More information on creating a login/logout system (Matthew Weier O'Phinney)
• A discussion of enhancing the base router (Michael Sheakoski)
• A discussion of using a database for Zend_Auth identity storage (Branko Ajzele)

Chapter 6

• The Zend_Search_Lucene component
• The Zend_Search_Lucene query language
• The ContextSwitch helper
• PHP's SimpleXML extension
• PHP's DOM extension
• A discussion of using the ContextSwitch helper to output Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (Pablo Viquez)
• A discussion of using the ContextSwitch helper to change layouts on the fly (Phil Brown)
• A discussion of creating a REST API with the ContextSwitch helper (Chris Danielson)
• A comparison of indexing email messages with Zend_Search_Lucene and Sphinx (Vikram Vaswani)

Chapter 7

• The Doctrine_Pager component
• The Zend_Paginator component
• The Zend_File_Transfer component
• Filters and validators for the Zend_File_Transfer components
• The Zend_Config component
• The Zend_Registry component
• The Bootstrap class and the local resource registry
• An explanation of the Registry pattern (Martin Fowler)
• A discussion of creating a custom resource plug-in for the Zend Framework bootstrapper (Stefan Schmalhaus)
• A tutorial on the Zend_Config component (Aaron Wormus)

Chapter 8

• An overview of exceptions and exception handling in PHP 5.x
• An overview of exceptions and exception handling in the Zend Framework
• The Zend Framework error handler plug-in
• The Zend_Log component
• The Zend_Debug component
• The Firefox Web browser
• The Firebug console debugger
• The FirePHP extension
• A discussion of using the Firebug and FirePHP components with the Zend Framework (Christoph Dorn)
• A discussion of handling errors in a Zend Framework application (Jani Hartikainen)
• A more advanced Zend Framework exception formatter (Larry Root)
• The original proposal and source for the Doctrine-based log writer (Matthew Lurz)

Chapter 9

• The Zend_Locale component
• The Zend_Date component
• Zend_Date format specifiers
• The Zend_Currency component
• Zend_Currency exchange rate conversion
• The Zend_Measure component
• The Zend_Translate component
• Zend_Translate directory layouts for translation source files
• The GNU gettext project
• The ISO 639 standard (language codes)
• The ISO 3166 standard (country codes)
• The ISO 4217 standard (currency codes)
• The PEAR Services_ExchangeRates package
• The gedit text editor
• The Notepad2 text editor
• A discussion of building multi-lingual Web sites with the Zend Framework (Jason Gilmore)
• A discussion of string localization with gettext and the Zend Framework (Peter T�rnstrand)

Chapter 10

• The Zend_Feed_Reader component
• The Zend_Feed component
• The Zend_Rest_Client component
• The Zend_Soap_Client component
• The Zend_Service component
• The Zend_Gdata component
• The Atom Syndication Format 1.0 specification
• Wikipedia's discussion of the RSS format
• Wikipedia's discussion of SOAP and REST architecture
• A discussion of REST versus SOAP Web services (Amit Asaravala)
• A discussion of building REST-based interfaces with the Zend Framework (Matthew Weier O'Phinney)
• A screencast of writing a REST-based Web service and client (Jon Lebensold)
• A (non-framework) approach to building a REST API (Ian Selby)
• Some examples of HTTP response codes and how they can be used with a REST-based Zend Framework application (Sudheer Satyanarayana)

Chapter 11

• The Zend_Navigation component
• The Zend_Dojo component
• Zend Framework action helpers
• Zend Framework resource plug-ins
• The Yahoo! User Interface Library
• The Dojo Toolkit
• The Sitemaps protocol
• A discussion of creating custom resource plug-ins (Stefan Schmalhaus)

Chapter 12

• The Zend_Cache component
• The Zend_Db_Profiler component
• Information on Doctrine caching
• Information on MySQL performance optimization
• Strategies for Zend Framework performance optimization
• ApacheBench documentation
• WCAT
• Xdebug
• Webgrind
• Wincachegrind
• Kcachegrind
• The PEAR Benchmark package
• Memcached
• The PHP memcached extension
• The Imind Doctrine profiler
• A discussion of profiling PHP scripts with Xdebug and Webgrind (Anant Garg)

Appendix

• MySQL installation notes
• General guidelines for compiling Apache on UNIX
• Windows-specific notes for Apache binary installations
• Installation instructions for PHP on Windows
• Installation instructions for PHP on UNIX
• Installation instructions for PHP on Mac OS X

© Vikram Vaswani, 2010