Zend Framework is a powerfull platform for rapidly creating PHP applications. This book takes you step-by-step through the process of building a simple content management system with Zend Framework and MySQL. You start by installing Zend Server and the framework. Then you learn to leverage the framework's components, which manage the system's design, content, user, and navigation, among many other things. With the base system up and running, you move on to advanced topics such as performance tuning and creating an API for your CMS. Each topics adds to your CMS, building a flexible, stabe, and powerfull platform on which you can base your real-world projects. Developing pure custom systems is an obious solution, but it has a downside. There are many moving parts in a secure web publishing systems, and developing them all from scratch takes far too long, as well as distracting you from writing key busines logics. Zend Framework gives you the best of both worlds, letting you bulid exactly the software you want without ever having to reinvent the wheel.//yeni
