If you want to dive into the ZendFramework or enhance your ZendFramework knowledge you can either study the manual or, what I prefer, read the code of other developers. There are quite a few open source applications that are based on the ZendFramework:
- Magento: Magento is a huge open-source-e-commerce platform based on the Zend Framework. There is a free community edition available for everyone.
- joobsbox: Joobsbox is a job board software with an integrated plugins and themes system, thus having a very modular application structure.
- Digitalus CMS: Digitalus CMS is a highly customizable and flexible content management system. Meanwhile the developers of Digitalus CMS produced Digitalus Framework which extends Zend Framework in order to make building content management systems easier.
- Atmail Webmail-Client: Atmail is an open source webmail client that gives you the possibility to revieve your emails everywhere. It shall be an alternative to Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes.
- Pastebin: Pastebin is a demo application to show Zend Frameworks possibilities developed by Matthew Weier O’Phinney.
- zendframeworkstorefront: This project is used as an example for the book Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development by Keith Pope. It is a simple storefront application.
- lcf-notes: An application to store notes. Based on Zend Framework with jQuery.
- phprojekt: A project management application.
Now you should have enough literature for the next couple of days! If you know any other open source based applications usind Zend Framework feel free to leave a comment with a link. I’ll update the list then.
