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Lukas Smith, one of the core PHP developers, explains in a blog post why the community isn’t just rewriting PHP from scratch.

Unless you’ve spent the past couple of years down a rabbit hole, you’ve already heard about AJAX: it’s a technique that combines asynchronous client-server communication with a set of existing toolkits (JavaScript, CSS, the DOM) to selectively update parts of a Web page, instead of the traditional “full page reload”. This produces applications that are quicker and more responsive to user input, resulting in a better user experience.

But what does all this have to do with PHP, you ask? Well, PHP is commonly used on the server end of the connection, to handle AJAX requests and send back responses. But that isn’t all it can do – with a little PEAR package called HTML_AJAX, you can use PHP to significantly simplify the work that goes into building and deploying an AJAX application.

That’s where this article comes in. Over the next few pages, I’m going to give you a quick run-down on the PEAR HTML_AJAX class, together with a few examples of how you can use it to AJAX-ify various Web applications. Keep reading, and be prepared to be amazed!

So, now you have seen how to add commands to the zf tooling system. But what if you want to interact with a “Project”. I guess the bigger question to answer is, what is a “Project”? In general, a “project” is a planned endeavor or an initiative. In the computer world, projects generally are a collection of resources. These resources can be files, directories, databases, schemas, images, styles, and more.

Zend Framework v1.7 is out and stable, and in fact the Zend Framework Team just announced the release of v1.7.3

Hello everybody. Just taking this chance to introduce myself here at Zend. My name is Eli White and I’m the new Editor-in-Chief of DevZone and "Community Guy" at Zend.

Did you submit a picture to the elephpantworldtour.com contest? They have announced the winners. If you think you may have won, you might want to head over and check it out.

In this article, Alan Seiden gives away 4 secrets on how he prepared for the Zend Framework Certification exam, and passed it. This goes a little deeper than “study hard and often”, and gives you links to excellent resources for when you are prepping for the exam. If you still have doubts about wether you can pass the exam, you sure want to read this article, and get yourself certified. With these steps, there are no more reasons why you can’t be a Zend Framework Certified Engineer too!

The new year has just started, and to start off well the dutch PHP usergroup (phpGG) is organizing a frontend-oriented event. This event is intended for developers who get in touch with client-side technology. Not just PHP developers, also frontend developers, and everyone who has to deal with frontend stuff in some way. Whether you deal with frontends on a daily basis, or are curious to the possibilities of making a new application more attractive in a graphical sense, you can’t miss out on this day. Besides all this, it’s also an excellent opportunity to get a (free!) membership of phpGG!

By now, you have probably read the earlier article on getting Zend_Tool installed and working on your development machine… (or at least you should have!) And you might have casually played with it, or perhaps you are using it to create the general scaffold for your ZF MVC based projects. Either way, at some point you are bound to ask the question “how do I extend Zend_Tool?”

This tutorial will set you through using Zend_Tool to jump-start development on your next ZF MVC application. Zend_Tool is both RAD tools as well as a framework for exposing your own set of tooling needs to the Zend_Tool user interface. While the areas in which extending Zend_Tool are exhaustive, we will focus merely on obtaining and using the current Zend_Tool toolset. This article has been published on DevZone before, but is now completely updated to the latest versions.