The Zend Framework in Practice

I have been distracted from doing much PHP development for a while now, because of the work I have been doing on a large C++ project. For the last couple of weeks, since this project came to an end, I have been catching up with developments in the Zend Framework. In particular, I have been looking at how to structure an application around the new Zend_Application class.

As I had been planning to revamp the GM-RAM website for a while now, I thought that it would be a good opportunity to experiment with building it based on Zend_Application. The new site is now up; the current content is limited, but I have some projects in the pipeline that hopefully will end up on the website.

I intend to publish a series of posts dealing with how the new site is implemented, which should hopefully give an insight in how to use Zend_Application and a number of other Zend Framework classes. The first few posts will deal with bootstrapping the application; then I shall move on to the implementation of the various pages and site features.