Course Outline: Zend Studio with Zend Platform for Developers

Duration: 3 days

Taught by an expert software engineer, the Zend Studio with Zend Platform for Developers Training Course is designed to provide participants with extensive insight and hands-on experience of the leading development tools for the open source PHP environment, Zend Studio and Zend Platform.

This 3-day course is designed to simulate many of the major processes and challenges you face when developing an application, through real hands-on exercises. This course will highlight to you all the functionality you need to increase the robustness of your applications, while decreasing production cycle time. It will also highlight how Zend Platform’s reliability, scalability, and full production performance will enhance your end user experience once the web application is deployed. While completing a live PHP development project, you will learn how to exploit the key features of Zend Studio with Zend Platform to transform the development of complex applications into a simple process.

Topics include:

• Introduction to Zend’s Suite of Products
• Zend Studio
• Framework for Development: The Model-View-Controller Pattern
• Source Control
• Coding the Application, including use of Templates, Bookmarks, PHPDoc
• Testing and Debugging Techniques
• Instant Debugging
• Configure Platform Studio Servers
• Server Debugging
• Optimizing Web Application Performance (PHP Intelligence, Profiler)
• Full and Partial Page Caching
• Site Analysis (code acceleration, file compression, dynamic content caching)
• Web Services (SOAP)
• Zend Download Server
• PHP/Java Bridge Integration
   

By the end of the course, you will have a thorough understanding of the main features of Zend Studio and Zend Platform. You will be able to use Zend Studio to develop and debug PHP projects, as well as understand how to integrate Zend Studio and Zend Platform into existing infrastructures. Finally, you will understand how to use Zend Platform for development and maintenance tasks.