Kevin Yank continues his coverage of this year's O'Reilly Open Source Convention with this new post on the SitePoint Web Tech Blog - a look at John Coggeshall's talk on "Understanding the Zend Framework".

John Coggeshall is a respected name in the PHP world, and works as a technical consultant for Zend, and provided a fast-paced introduction to the Zend Framework as it currently exists in pre-release.

Kevin highlights some of the points that John made through out the talk including:

• a simple code demonstration of the Zend Framework functionality
• creating controllers and views
• using the Zend_InputFilter class
• using the Lucene searching functionality