On the ProDevTips blog, there's a quick post with an example of a Zend Framework/jQuery and Smarty combination he came across while working up a CMS system:

The result is an interface where an administrator can settle money transfers. It will start with displaying a list of all requested transfers, when the administrator has manually finished transferring cash to each recipient's account he can use this interface to update the database.

He briefly explains the code, a combination of a jQuery function run on page load, a Smarty template for each transfer's information and the backend code through the Zend Framework to handle the requests issued from the button click.