Aaron Wormus has published another new instalment of his series ‘Zend Framework Hidden Gems’ at the Devzone.The segment provides an introduction to what is available in the Zend_Db set of classes. Aaron provides an overview of database abstraction layers and Zend_Db before going on to explain how to:

• Connect to multiple databases using regular PHP extensions, PDO and Zend_Db
• Utilize prepared queries in the Zend_Db query() function
• Run a transaction with Zend_Db