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View Helpers in Zend Framework

Views in MVC are allowed to communicate with the Model (using read-only operations), and are allowed to perform display-related logic. That said, how do you actually access the model? And what if you have some fairly complex logic that you may need to repeat, or which you may not want to display directly in the view in order to keep it clean and easy to read? In Zend Framework, the answer is to use View Helpers.

Zend Framework's MVC Introduces the ViewRenderer

One of my roles at Zend is as a Zend Framework developer, and as such, I'm the lead developer on the MVC components. Yesterday, I committed a change to core in preparation for the 1.0.0RC1 release that, while breaking backwards compatability slightly, will also greatly simplify the integration between the controller and view components.

Complex Views in the Zend Framework

Padraic Brady has been posting a fascinating series of articles on his blog about complex views in the Zend Framework. If you are working with the Zend Framework or you are interested in a deep discussion about M-V-C then you’ll want to spend a lunch hour digesting these four articles.

Ben Ramsey Posts Zend Framework View Notes

Ben Ramsey has been working with the Zend Framework lately and has posted his notes on some new functionality in Zend_View for all to share.

Automating Amazon research with the Zend Framework

Jason Gilmore, Editorial Director for Apress Open Source and author of three books, shows you how you too can track his book’s popularity on Amazon. Ok so he also shows you how he used the Zend Framework to build his mashup too.