What does the Model View Controller pattern allow you to do in the Zend Framework?
Basically what Zend Framework has already had for the last year and a half is a really respectable MVC pattern, and what that allows you to do is to separate your business logic from the presentation layer. That is kind of the simple thing it allows you to do, but in most cases, including ours, it also allows you to create composite views. So if you have an application that has two or three different pieces of information on the same Web page, it allows you to build those kinds of Web pages in a very modular way. Also, what our MVC does is it supports AJAX, so if you are writing a rich Internet application with JavaScript on the client, there is already the right plumbing in our MVC framework to communicate with the browser and respond to AJAX requests from the browser. Is that functionality new in 1.5? Almost all of the AJAX functionality is new in 1.5, but a small piece of it existed before. We also have a new forms feature which allows you to build forms very easily and that coupled
