A long debate among Wordpress developers is essentially about the possibility of using truly object-oriented code in their themes and plugins by exploiting the latest features of PHP 5. Most developers who don't are accustomed to OOP in PHP think that OOP in Wordpress is rather difficult to accomplish and, in a certain sense, even counterproductive. But if you take a closer look at the inner structure of the Wordpress core, you'll surely notice the abundance of classes and most of the OOP features we're all used to see in other frameworks. This post is written in the hope of stimulating a renewed interest in OOP with Wordpress.

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Many PHP developers who start using the Zend Framework for the first time get always scared of the complexity of this framework. I'd like to say that there's nothing to be worried about. Yes, the Zend Framework is quite complex, but it's perhaps the best documented framework available on the web. This means that there's a reference guide, an online documentation and, above all, a myriad of high-level tutorials available online. In short: all of your present and future questions about this framework have already been answered.

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Using the Zend framework implies a radical change in the way we usually handle the file structure of our projects. In fact, the Zend framework is based on a strict separation between the core application files and your front-end files, where front-end files means the files that will be served to web browsers. In older versions of PHP web applications, that is, prior to Zend and the MVC design pattern, the file hierarchy was basically contained within the document root of your web server. Supposing that your document root is called public_html, then the old hierarchy was something like the following:

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Getting Started with Zend Framework

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Introduction to Zend Framework

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Zend Framework Workshop, DPC09

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Really interesting.

Interesting video on one of the most useful aspects of the Zend Framework.

Here's an interesting video that shows you how to start coding with the MVC model using the Zend Framework.

An interesting video that shows how to improve the search capabilities of your PHP application with Zend Framework's Lucene.

Interesting video. I fully agree. The PHP Zend Framework is a really powerful tool that I started rediscovering a couple of months ago.