The Zend Framework Course: Fundamentals course is designed for experienced PHP programmers who want to learn to combine Zend Framework concepts and structural elements to utilize the full power of this software development kit for PHP 5 applications.

Zend Framework is an open-source class library with a central theme of "extreme simplicity". Zend Framework helps you to reduce the tedious details of coding and instead allows developers to be more productive as they focus on the big picture. Utilizing a collection of customizable PHP classes, Zend Framework provides robust functionality suitable for both large and small tasks.

This course combines teaching Zend Framework with the introduction of the Model-View-Component (MVC) design pattern, to ensure you learn current best practices in PHP development.

The Zend Framework Course: Fundamentals course helps you to learn by doing. Each discussion of related components is presented with examples of how best to utilize them in your applications, Hands-on exercises and the mini-projects you develop during the course reinforce the concepts you have learned.

Course Content of Zend Framework:

Configuring Your Development Environment

• Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Windows
• Testing Your Installation
• Choosing a Code Editor
• Exploring Other Useful Software
• Choosing a Web Hosting Provider

Introducing PHP

• Creating Your First PHP-Enabled Web Page
• Publishing Spreadsheet Data to the Web
• Displaying Data in a Table
• Managing Your Site Design Using Templates

Interacting With Your Users

• Creating a Contact Form
• Validating User Input
• Repopulating Form Data
• Sending Form Data via E-mail
• More on Securing User Input

Introducing MySQL

• What Is a Relational Database?
• Introducing MySQL
• Introducing phpMyAdmin
• Moving Your Data to MySQL
• Connecting Your Website to MySQL
• Restricting Access

Introducing the Zend Framework

• What Is a Web Framework?
• Introducing the Zend Framework
• Installing the Zend Framework
• Testing Your Installation Zend Framework
• Creating the Website Layout with Zend Framework
• Creating a Configuration File in Zend Framework
• The init() Method in Zend Framework
• Creating Action Helpers in Zend Framework

Talking to the Database with Zend_Db

• Zend Framework - Introducing Object-relational Mapping
• Zend Framework - Introducing Zend_Db
• Zend Framework - Creating Your First Model
• Zend Framework - Querying Your Models
• Zend Framework - Creating a Row Model
• Zend Framework - Inserting, Updating, and Deleting Data
• Zend Framework - Modeling Table Relationships
• Zend Framework - JOINing Your Data
• Zend Framework - Paginating Results with Zend_Paginator
• Zend Framework - Creating and Managing Views

Processing Forms and Sending Email

• Zend Framework Forms Fundamentals
• Zend Framework - Creating the GameNomad Contact Form
• Zend Framework - Validating Form Data
• Zend Framework - Filtering Form Data
• Zend Framework - Preventing Spamming Using CAPTCHAs

Managing Your User Community

• Zend Framework - Creating the Users Table and Model
• Zend Framework - Registering Users
• Zend Framework - Displaying User Profiles

Integrating Google Maps

• Zend Framework - Introducing the Google Maps API
• Zend Framework - Adding Mapping Services to Your Website

Introducing the Amazon Associates Web Service

• Zend Framework - Introducing the Amazon Associates Web Service
• Zend Framework - Introducing the Zend_Service_Amazon Component
• Zend Framework - Searching for Products
• Zend Framework - Customer Reviews

Enhancing the User Interface with Ajax

• Introducing JavaScript
• Introducing Ajax

Extend Your Website with RSS and Facebook

• Building and Publishing RSS Feeds
• Introducing the Facebook Platform
• Building Your First Facebook Application
• Introducing the Facebook PHP Client Library
• Creating a Facebook Platform Controller
• Creating a Facebook Profile Tab
• Sending a Facebook User Notification
• Adding Facebook Status Updates
• Deploying Your Facebook Application

Monitor Traffic and Manage Ads with Google

• Monitoring Traffic with Google Analytics
• Advertising with Google AdWords
• Earning Money with Google AdSense

Accepting Online Payments with PayPal

• Integrating PayPal Website Payments Standard
• Exploring Third-Party E-Commerce Solutions

Introducing Zend_Tool

• Configuring Zend_Tool
• Creating and Managing Projects with Zend_Tool