Zend Studio with Platform Training for Developers

Taught by an expert software engineer, this 3-day training course is designed to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the major processes and challenges they may face when developing an application, through real hands-on exercises. This course is designed for

• active web application developers with a good working knowledge of PHP 5 and the basic tenets of Object Oriented design
• developers wanting to learn how to exploit the features of Zend Studio with Platform for web development projects

The training will cover all the functionality you need to increase the robustness of your applications, while decreasing production time and enhancing end user experience.

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.

Course Contents

• 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

Objectives

By the end of the course, you will

• Have a thorough understanding of the main features of Zend Studio and Zend Platform
• Be able to use Zend Studio to develop and debug PHP projects
• Understand how to integrate Zend Studio and Zend Platform into existing infrastructures
• Understand how to use Zend Platform for development and maintenance tasks