SearchOpenSource: Automating Amazon Research with the Zend Framework

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"Web frameworks have been all the rage lately, and for good reason. They eliminate a great deal of the mindless repetition involved in creating Web applications large and small. How many times have you written and revised ugly SQL statements? Refactored looping mechanisms only to later find out you accidentally removed part of the table tag structure, a side effect of mixing logic and presentation? Repeated code in far too many locations throughout your application? These annoyances and more can be resolved by using a framework that facilitates rapid development of applications by abstracting necessary yet menial tasks such as SQL statement creation. The framework provides clean separation of logic and presentation along with easy maintenance and extensibility through a well-organized application structure..."

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