Let me start off if you want to learn to program, or learn to program in PHP specifically, you don’t learn by starting off using a framework. That is not going to teach you anything other than making you unable to solve small problems in the most efficient manner.
However, if you are already a programmer and have been asked to pick up Zend, the first thing you’ll find is that the learning curve into Zend is steep. Very, very steep.
So much so that there is no way a bunch of simple tutorials are going to get you properly versed in the framework, leaving us in other words with proper learning materials – i.e. books.
And if you are looking for a good book, look no further than the excellent Zend Framework in Action by Rob Allen, Nick Lo and Steven Brown, published by Manning.
In depth, covering all aspects of the Zend Framework in an easy to understand manner, padding out with a lot of examples (and more importantly, a nice complex real world website that gets carried throughout the text), Zend Framework in Action is an excellent read to get you properly up and running and well on your way to becoming proficient in the world of Zend.
Nifty.
You might also enjoy:
-
If you have a nice and shiny new Zend Framework project all set up but are still getting nasty browser 404 errors when attempting to hit URL other than the ... -
To generate an empty project shell using the Zend Framework is pretty easy thanks to the powerful zf command line utility. To create a project, simply op ... -
This post serves more as a bookmark for me than anything else, now that I have been tasked with learning the icky world of Zend and its MVC pattern from the ...
-
If you already have a web development environment set up on your machine and don't necessarily want to run the whole Zend Server package and instead just wa ...
-
I cant stop grinning. This overbearing feeling of being a genius is difficult to get rid of at the moment :)When I code stuff, I tend to try and make segmen ...
