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Summary: Very practical web development book (making extensive use of Zend Framework)
Comment: I found this book very useful if you want to develop a solid, feature-rich web application. It provides a review of all technologies needed to piece together your own solution, using always components/frameworks that are well entrenched in the development community. Not only you will get an understanding of the back-end architecture(PHP, Zend_Framework, Smarty, MySQL) but you will also get to learn how to tie in your front-end components (Ajax, JavaScript, CSS, JSON) in a seamless application.
I see this book as a very good manual for a CS class in LAMP web development.
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Summary: Todo lo que necesita un emprendedor web
Comment: Este libro, es excelente para personas las cuales hemos trabajado mucho con aplicaciones para internet, pero que estamos interesado en el web 2.0, ajax y el mundo del MVC.
Hasta el momento no tengo quejas sobre este libro, y creo que no la tendré, aunque tengo que mencionar, que deberian explicar que el libro hace uso de Zend Framework y que sin el seria dificil aplicar Web 2.0 basandonos en el libro.
CodeIgniter es mi framework para desarrollo, pero ahora que el libro me introduce hacia Zend Framework creo que tengo mas posibilidades, si eres alguien que desea aprender Zend Framework, introducirte en el mundo del web 2.0, creo que este es el libro perfecto.
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Summary: Outstanding
Comment: This book is outstanding. Not only does it guide you through on building online applications but it also drags you through the Zend PHP framework. I would recommend this book to anyone is going down the path of becoming a fantastic PHP developer. It is a good resource.
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Summary: Excellent, but why implement your own Db Table pattern
Comment: This is an excellent book and I have enjoyed reading it over the past day. For someone trying to piece together the various technologies like Auth, ACL, Config, Logging and Session it's a great resource for the first several chapters, going into detail about the configuration and setup of this simple environment without any of that padding and guff that a lot of other authors include. The book doesn't treat you like an idiot, which I certainly appreciated.
The only issue I would raise is that the Author has used his own classes for database Table access instead of employing the frameworks standard Zend_Db_Table and Zend_Db_Table_Row bases. This means that anyone wanting to adhere closely to the Zend Framework (for corporate reasons) will have to reverse engineer the approaches used. An odd choice for a book almost entirely based on the Zend Framework.
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Summary: Good book after slow start
Comment: I have been working with PHP for several years now yet the first part of this book had me pulling my hair out (whats left of it). Setting up the environment is tricky and it probably would of helped me if I had a stronger background in OO programming. With that said, this is a good book and I would recommend it to any intermediate level PHP developer.
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