Zend Framework Webinars

Zend Framework I18n Translation

Zend Framework is delivered with a fully featured I18n core. In this first webinar about the I18n core, you will learn the basics of I18n.

This webinar will look into the details of translation, describe the differences between available adapters and see how to set up translation. You will learn the usage of translation within the view or a controller and work with plurals.

Presenter - Thomas Weidner

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Leveraging Zend_Form Decorators

Zend_Form provides powerful management of filter and validation chains, as well as the ability to render the form and its elements. The approach to rendering is via a flexible decoration system that often takes some time to understand.

In this webinar, we'll look at how you can start writing decorators as well as leveraging existing decorators to render complex form markup.

Presenter – Matthew O’Phinney

Namespaces in the Wild with PHP 5.3

If you’re using PHP components provided by others, or if you’re creating components others may use, you don’t want to miss our technical webinar on Namespaces in PHP 5.3. Join Stas Malyshev, a core PHP contributor, and Michael Spector from Zend’s R&D team to learn what namespaces are and how to make the most out of them.

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Leveraging Zend_Navigator

The Zend_Navigation component was introduced in Zend Framework 1.8.0. Developed entirely by community members, it provides a powerful API for managing trees of web page links, as well as a variety of view helpers to assist you in creating menus, breadcrumbs, links, and sitemaps. Via integration with the Zend Framework's rewrite router and ACL system, you get fine-grained control over link generation, including selection of what links to return based on the role of the current user. Join us in this webinar and explore Zend_Navigation's features!

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Taming Amazon Web Services with Zend Framework

One of the most exciting features in ZF 1.8 is support for Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services. EC2 can make deploying a heavy-load application or site much easier, while S3 provides practically limitless online storage. Wil Sinclair, Cloud Strategist at Zend Technologies, will demonstrate how the new EC2 and S3 services in Zend Framework can be used to put PHP on the cloud with an application for managing files and server instances on AWS.

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Unveiling Zend Framework 1.8

Zend Framework is now in its 1.8 release cycle, and offers many new features to make developers' lives easier. These features include command line tooling support for getting your project started and generating code for your project, the introduction of Zend_Application to standardize and encapsulate bootstrapping tasks, and comprehensive support for Amazon's EC2 and S3 services. In this webinar, we'll provide a high-level overview of some of these features, as well as some representative code samples to show basic usage.

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Zend_Tool/command line tooling

With the release of Zend Framework 1.8 comes Zend_Tool: the long awaited RAD tool for ZF. With Zend_Tool, developers can kick start the development of their project by generating the initial project structure, controllers, modules, actions, views and more with the built-in CLI client. In addition to the out-of-the box feature-set, the component can be extended to facilitate a developers own custom tooling and RAD needs. In this webinar, we'll take a quick tour of the powerful feature-set that Zend_Tool has to offer.

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Get "Rich" Quick : Building Ajax-based RIAs with the Zend Framework and Appcelerator

One of the more daunting challenges of building rich internet applications is the overwhelming amount of JavaScript necessary to create truly compelling user experiences. By leveraging the message-oriented architecture of Appcelerator with Zend Framework, you can build rich internet applications with 90% less code. An overview of the open-source Appcelerator Platform will be presented and a sample application will be constructed live using Appcelerator and Zend Framework.
Presented by Matthew Quinlan & Martin Robinson, Appcelerator

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Rich UIs and easy AJAX with Dojo and Zend Framework

This past spring, the Zend Framework team announced a partnership with Dojo toolkit to provide out-of-the-box support for Rich Internet Applications. The 1.6.0 release of Zend Framework provides the first steps in this partnership: Zend Framework now ships the Dojo Toolkit distribution, and provides several components for utilizing Dojo's widget layer, Dijit; a JSON-RPC server implementation; support for creating dojo.data envelopes for XmlHttpRequest payloads; and a view helper for setting up the Dojo environment for your application.

In this webinar, we will explore some of this functionality to demonstrate how you can use Zend Framework and Dojo to create beautiful user interfaces with native remoting capabilities.
Presented by Matthew Weier O’phinney, Software Architect

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PHP for Dynamic Web Application Development

As a key component of the Open Source LAMP stack, PHP is the fastest growing web development languages for developing interactive and dynamic web applications that meet the demands of the enterprise. Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is emerging as the preferred PHP programmer’s toolkit for designing Web applications with best practices. It is based on extreme simplicity, the latest Web 2.0 features, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb. This session will provide a brief overview of PHP, discuss the key drivers influencing the growth and success of PHP in supporting business critical web applications, and what Zend Technologies is doing to drive best practices and quality web applications within the PHP community and in support of commercial users. Web development design topics will include MVC, Search, Data Access, Web Services, Filter, Authentication, Cache, and more.

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What's New in Zend Framework 1.6

Watch this presentation to hear the entire Zend Framework team talk about what to expect from Zend Framework 1.6, soon to be released.
Presented by Wil Sinclair, Development Manager, Matthew Weier O’phinney, Software Architect, Alexander Veremyev, Software Engineer and Ralph Schindler, Software Engineer.

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Building an AJAX Interface with Zend Framework

Earlier this year Zend announced an unprecedented partnership with the Dojo Foundation to deliver deeper integration between the Zend Framework and Dojo Toolkit projects. Although the ZF and Dojo communities will implement many integration points to make AJAX functionality available out of the box, each project plans to maintain compatibility with other server-side frameworks and client-side toolkits. In this webinar, we will explore several AJAX integration points made available by ZF that may be implemented for any toolkit with examples implemented using Dojo.

Presenters: Wil Sinclair, Zend Framework Development Manager Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Zend Framework Software Architect

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Zend Framework: Command Line Tooling

Zend Framework 1.5 introduces some new components that make creating, updating, and maintaining your project as easy as running a few commands in a command-line interface (CLI). In addition, these components will reinforce Zend Framework best practices by providing project templates which can be used out-of-the-box or modified to meet the specific needs of any application.
In this webinar, we explored these powerful new components by creating a new project, adding a few controllers and actions, and removing a few controllers and actions- hopefully ending up with a working application when all is said and done.

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Zend Framework project partners with the Dojo Ajax toolkit

Zend is excited to announce a partnership between Dojo and Zend Framework. The goal is to deliver a one-stop solution for building rich internet applications with PHP & Ajax. Zend’s co-founder and chief technical officer Andi Gutmans discusses this announcement in-depth on his blog and Zend architect Matthew Weier O’Phinney also provides code samples and more details in a separate post.
In this webinar the Zend Framework team delivered a short overview of the proposed integration. Following this short presentation the team answered questions from the audience.

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Zend Framework - The Big Q&A

It has been almost a year since the 1.0 release of Zend Framework. In that time we've seen some of the most trafficked sites in the world deployed on ZF, many popular enterprise-oriented projects built with ZF, and some of the greatest times ever had (while coding) using ZF. Since our community has been so great in giving back to the project, we decided it's the Zend Framework team's turn to find a new way to give back.

On April 30, 2008, Zend's very own Zend Framework team made themselves available for a 2-hour Q&A session. Click below to hear the outcome!

Zend_Layout and Zend _View Enhancements

Just as we strive for optimal reuse, organization, and clarity in our code on the backend of a web application, it’s just as important to maintain those same tenets with respect to the view layer or "design & presentation" side of a project. The problem of maintaining a consistent look and feel while encouraging best practices is what Zend_Layout, as well as the Zend Framework 1.5 Zend_View enhancements, attempt to solve.

In this Webinar we covered:

The problem of consistent look and feel in an MVC Architecture
Zend_Layout and the "Two-Step-View" - solution to the problem
An example of configuring and using Zend_Layout with both the MVC components as well as standalone
An example of configuring and using the new Zend_View Doctype and head*() Helpers
Use cases and examples of when to use Action, Partial and Placeholder helpers for complex views

Presented By: Ralph Schindler, PHP Developer, Zend Technologies

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Zend_Form

Zend_Form is a new component for simplifying the creation of forms for web applications. It contains functionality for validating and filtering elements, rendering elements, element groups, and entire forms, and a flexible design for affecting any and all of these responsibilities.
In this webinar, we'll look at how to create forms and some of the flex points for extension and customization.

Presented by Matthew Weier O’Phinney, PHP Developer, Zend Framework Team

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Zend Framework - Authentication

Zend_Auth helps web developers to implement authentication for their applications by providing a simple API and various adapters for popular authentication backends, such as LDAP, InfoCard, and OpenID.
In this webinar, we implemented the authentication process using Zend_Auth and demonstrate its flexibility and extensibility for custom functionality.

Presented by: Darby Felton, PHP Developer, Zend Technologies

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Building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with PHP and Zend Framework

The Webinar provides an overview of the relevant features in PHP 5 and Zend Framework which make them suitable for building RIAs. We demoed a sample application and then dived into the details, including best practices for its implementation.

Overview of RIA application design, including using the MVC (model-view-controller) architecture
Techniques for performing asynchronous communication (Ajax) between your PHP app and the client
How to use JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to communicate simple XML in an Ajax fashion
How to use the search engine component Zend_Search, which is based on the Lucene search engine
About the future roadmap for near-term Ajax support in Zend Framework

Presented on 11/14/2007 by Bradford Cottel and Stas Malyshev.

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Improve your PHP Application's Search Capabilities with Lucene

There are many solutions for indexing a website - Lucene is recognized as one of the best. Zend_Search_Lucene, a part of the Zend Framework, brings the power of the Lucene indexing library to the PHP world. In this session you will learn, through practical examples, how to use Zend_Search_Lucene to index your existing content pages to improve your PHP application's search capabilities.

Presented by Wil Sinclair, ATG Manager, Zend Technologies, at 11/07/2007

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Zend Framework Database Access Component

One of the core features of the Zend Framework is its database access component. The DB component is designed with a "keep it simple" principle, giving access to advanced data access features, balanced with database implementation abstraction, extreme simplicity, and ease of use. Another goal of the DB component is to encourage good practices and reduce performance and security flaws. Bill gave an overview of the capabilities of the Zend DB component, and presented several examples of using it in PHP 5 for tasks including:

Connecting to a variety of supported database brands
Running simple and advanced SQL queries and retrieving results
Measuring performance of SQL statements
Building SQL queries programmatically
Using the object-oriented interface to database tables, similar to ActiveRecord

Presented by Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager, Zend Technologies, at 10/31/2007

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MVC applications with Zend Framework

Zend Framework has reached 1.0.0, and the API has stabilized. If you haven't started writing MVC applications with Zend Framework, now is a great time to learn. Matthew will discuss the origins and implications of MVC and provide an overview of how Zend Framework's MVC components work while walking you through the development of a sample application. Each of the various areas of extension and customization will be covered in order to show you how to best make use of the MVC to create your own applications. By the end, you will have the tools necessary to create both simple and modular applications using Zend Framework's MVC.

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Zend Framework and Access Control Webinar

Zend's Darby Felton taught how to utilize Zend_Auth and Zend_Session for authentication and persistence support, set up and query access control lists with Zend_Acl to secure applications' protected resources and services, and integrate authentication and access control solutions with the Zend Framework MVC (Model-View-Controller) components.

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Zend Framework 1.0 - An Overview

The Zend Framework is emerging as the preferred PHP programmer’s toolkit for designing Web applications with best practices. In the month’s prior to the 1.0 release, Zend Framework had over 1 million downloads and multiple commercial products are already being developed with Zend Framework. In this webinar, Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager, will provide an overview of the design philosophy, the major components of the framework and its future directions. Topics will cover MVC, Search, Data Access, Web Services, Filter, Authentication, Cache and more. Tune in to learn more about the value Zend Framework can offer your web project.
You will leave having learned:

Three ways you can use Zend Framework to make your applications more secure
Four ways Zend Framework promotes software development best practices
Five ways Zend Framework can free you from reinventing the wheel – so you can focus on your area of innovation

Originally presented: June 21, 2007 – 8:00 AM PDT
Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes, including Q&A
Presenter: Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager
Target audience: PHP Developers

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QEDWiki Project

One of the most sophisticated applications built on Zend Framework to date is the QEDWiki project by IBM. QEDWiki is an “application wiki” which extends the wiki concept significantly. Drag and drop application elements onto wiki pages, connect them through web services, and create composite applications that solve real business needs. IBM and Zend have an ongoing partnership to foster PHP development and this is just one example of how they are working together. Much of the code that IBM has developed for QEDWiki is in the process of being given back to the community in the form of contributions to the Zend Framework. The widgets themselves are PHP classes that are executed via AJAX to render themselves. Most of the widgets used in the demos have both a design-time and a run-time rendering. Check out this impressive demonstration and learn more about the QEDWiki.
Featured Speaker: Stewart Nickolas, IBM

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