One key benefit of the flexibility of the Zend Framework is that there is no need to force a particular
application??™s requirements into one methodology as the framework can be moulded to solve the problem in
hand.
Forms are one of those aspects of building a web site that developers either love or loathe due to the
complexities of validation and ensuring that the user is informed about issues in the form in a friendly manner.
In the next chapter, we will look at how the Zend Framework can help make building and validating online
forms easier with view helpers and the Zend_Filter_Input component.
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Searching
One feature that marks out an excellent web site from a mediocre one is search. It doesn??™t matter how
good your navigation system is, your users are used to Google and so expect that they can search your web site
to find what they are looking for and if they can??™t search, or if the search doesn??™t return useful results, then
they will try another site that does. A good search system is also hard to write but the Zend Framework
provides the Zend_Search_Lucene component to make it easier.
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