Introduction

In my attempt to turn you nerds into uber-nerds, I’ve been lucky enough to get the young and talented Jon Lebensold (my right hand nerd) to bang out a few articles (and soon videos) on some of the emerging PHP technologies and working practices that take PHP into the enterprise arena.

Enterprise arena = sophisticated scalable and adaptable code.

About this article:

The following article introduces you to ‘web application frameworks’. If you don’t know what this is, read on and you soon will. But for those of you that are impatient … in a nutshell:

A web application framework is a set of code libraries (in our case, that would be libraries written in PHP) that handles/does many of the things that we typically need to do when building database driven websites.

For more details, you need to read the article.

Stefan Mischook

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The Zend Framework: Writing Object-Oriented PHP with Ease.

By: Jon Lebensold

This article aims to introduce the concept of developing a PHP application with a set of libraries that facilitate development by abstracting ones self from writing generic libraries.

We know that classes are composed of behaviours (methods) and data (properties), however their value only becomes apparent when we develop applications in layers, with different components answering different questions.

What Does a Layered Development Approach Look Like?

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