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Zend Framework usage grows very fast. Zend Developer Zone launched new tutorial of how to use Zend_Form module.

Zend_Form has been lauded by many as a welcome addition to Zend Framework, and a flexible solution to the problem of forms. That said, one point of flexibility it offers has proved to be a pain point for many developers: decorators. This tutorial aims to shed some light on decorators, as well as provide strategies for creating your own decorators and combining them in creative ways to customize the output your forms generate.

This complete tutorial shows how you can create good looking forms in your ZF applications. Zend_Form is new way of fast creating forms for PHP coders.

Padraic Brady posted 5th part of his articles series “An Example Zend Framework Blog Application”. New article shows how work with Zend_Db and how to make administration module.

Today’s entry adds a few more layers to our slowly growing blog application. First of all I decided to add an Entries Model and Authors Model to the mix, primarily to get ready for when we can add new entries to our blog. This leads to where we can create new Entries; we add an Administration Module to the application with it’s own distinct Layout

This article shows how to create mysql table and make model to handle administration of this example application. If you are novice to Zend Framework you should read all parts of series.