Getting Started with Zend Framework

Conclusion

This concludes our brief look at building a simple, but fully functional,Zend Framework zend-mvc application.

In this tutorial we but briefly touched quite a number of different parts of theframework.

The most important part of applications built with zend-mvc are themodules, thebuilding blocks of anyzend-mvc application.

To ease the work with dependencies inside our applications, we use theservice manager.

To be able to map a request to controllers and their actions, we useroutes.

Data persistence was performed usingzend-db to communicate witha relational database. Input data is filtered and validated withinputfilters,and, together withzend-form,they provide a strong bridge between the domain model and the view layer.

zend-view isresponsible for the View in the MVC stack, together with a vast amount ofview helpers.