Frameworks such as Ruby-on-Rails and Django have been getting a lot of attention as a result. For PHP coders, the Zend Framework offers that same promise without the need to move away from PHP. The first production release of Zend Framework became available in July 2007. Zend Framework in Action is a comprehensive tutorial that shows how to use Zend Framework to create web based applications and web services. This book takes you on a tour of over-the-shoulder of the Zend Framework components as you build high quality, real-world web applications. When you follow the example running, you'll learn to build interactive Ajax-based features into your application without sacrificing nuts-and-consideration of bolts such as security and performance. This book is aimed at the competent PHP developer who wants to master the web-based development framework.