Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. The Zend Framework

1.2. About This Book

1.3. Me, Me, Me!

1.4. You, You, You!

2. The Architecture of Zend Framework Applications

2.1. Introduction

2.2. The Model-View-Controller

2.2.1. The View

2.2.2. The Controller

2.2.3. The Model

2.3. In Review

2.4. Conclusion

3. The Model

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Clarifying The Model

3.3. In Programming, Fat Models Are Preferable To Size Zero Models

3.4. The Fat Stupid Ugly Controller

3.5. Controllers Are Not The Data Police

3.6. Conclusion

A. Performance Optimisation For Zend Framework Applications

A.1. Introduction

A.2. Avoid Premature Optimisation

A.3. Measuring Performance

A.3.1. Memory and CPU Measurement

A.3.2. Requests Per Second

A.4. Pinpointing The Cause Of Poor Performance

A.4.1. Code Profiling

A.4.2. Database Operations Analysis

A.5. General PHP Optimisation

A.5.1. Opcode Caching

A.5.2. Realpath Cache

A.6. General Zend Framework Optimisation

A.6.1. Class Loading Optimisation

A.6.2. Configuring Default Caches

A.6.3. Cache At The Right Level

A.6.4. Minimising Include Paths

A.7. HTTP Server Optimisation

A.7.1. Optimising Apache's Configuration

A.7.2. Avoiding Apache Completely

A.8. Conclusion

B. Copyright Information

B.1. Copyright

B.2. Licensing