Zend Framework for Absolute Beginners?

Answer

For me, the three definitive ZF Getting Started tutorials are:

1. Quick Start from Zend
2. Album tutorial from Rob Allen
3. Surviving the Deep End from Padraic Brady

Two additional applications which I have found helpful, though a little more advanced, are:

1. Dasprid's blog (src), from Ben Scholzen
2. PHPPlaneta, from Robert Basic

Learned a lot from all of them.

And, of course:

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