Currently I’m very interested in PHP & Zend(Framework) resources that deal with enterprise-level architectures , design patterns and refactoring, as well as with ways of plainly mastering the Zend-Framework , e.g. mastering its complexity and choosing the “right” options for its usage out of the many it provides.
I’m especially looking for some use-cases and tutorials that go a bit further than the basic “how-to use Zend_Form”, “how-to set up MVC” and so on stuff.. That said, this basic stuff is covered nicely on the Zend-Screencasts blog (video tutorials) .
Slides from the ZendCon09 , that recentrly took place look interesting. That talk caught my attention : writing maintainable PHP Code , goes into do’s and doent’s about writing PHP code and has plenty of examples on how to refactor, introduces some so called “code smells” that are signs for the need to refactor..
Recently this weblog (The Pope is Dead) has caught my attention , I still have to dive into it but it seems there is some pretty advanced stuff up there.
The posts are written by Keith Pope, who is the author of Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development , which I ordered, alongside with Zend Enterprise PHP Patterns (Expert’s Voice) by John Coggeshall & Morgan Tocker ..
Might post some reviews about the books here, once I know more ..