I have been using Zend_Db for my web application for the past 1 year. I think, Zend Framework is the best by far.
Zend was started by folks who were the core contributors of PHP.(1)
widely tested
Yes. It is used by thousands of projects and has a active community of developers.
has good interface (readable method names ,good
parameter passing strategy)
Yes. All Components can be easily customized to your needs. Every component in Zend is loosely coupled, meaning you can use any component without any dependency on any other component in the framework.
speed
Yes. Zend_Db using PDO, by default.
lightweight
Yes
providing cache (e.g integrates with memcache or supports a good caching mechanism)
Zend has an extensive caching system.
open-source license
Yes
To access a DB table, all you have to do, is create a class for it by setting the table name and its primary key as its fields.
class User extends Zend_Db_Table {
protected $_name = "users"; //tablename
protected $_primary = "user_key"; //primary key column
function addNewUser($name,$age,$email) {
//Validate input and add Logic to add a new user
//Methods are available to insert data like $this->insert($data)
// where $data is an array of column names and values
// Check links below for documentation
}
}
This is called a model. In this class, you can create all the methods related to 'User' entity like adding a new user, editing user etc.
In your application code, you can use this as,
$u = new User();
$u->addNewUser('Name','Age','email');
Must Read this - http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.db.table.html
More reference here.
Check this relation question for more information
