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C H A P T E R 2 4
MVC and the Zend Framework
Even at this likely early stage of your Web development career, chances are you??™re
already attempting to sketch out the features of a long-desired custom application.
An e-commerce store perhaps? An online community forum devoted to stamp
collecting? Or maybe something a tad less interesting but nonetheless very practical,
such as a corporate intranet? Regardless of the purpose, you should always strive
to base development around sound development practices, several of which have
become increasingly well-defined over time. In fact, focus on this area has become
such that several groups of developers have banded together to produce a variety of
Web frameworks, each of which serves to help others develop Web applications in a
manner that??™s efficient, rapid, and representative of sound development principles.
This chapter??™s purpose is threefold. First, it makes the case for why you should seek
to embrace one of the most crucial of these best practices, known as the Model-View-
Controller (MVC) design architecture. Second, it introduces several of the most
popular PHP-driven frameworks, each of which allows you to take advantage of
MVC, in addition to a variety of other time-saving features such as Ajax integration.
Finally, it devotes additional time to the Zend Framework, which, although the newest of
the bunch, is rapidly becoming the most popular of these framework solutions.
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