Extending the art and spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity and productivity, object-oriented best practices, corporate-friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile code base. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications and 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. With over 1,000 pages and 500 examples, Zend Framework: The Official Programmer's Reference Guide complements quality code with quality documentation. This guide gets you started and then immersed into all that Zend Framework has to offer.
