Juozas Kaziukenas has a new post to his blog with some tips and tricks for working with the Zend Framework including working with globals, using the framework part of the framework and getting form values a bit more correctly.

Most of the outlined problems and solutions are focused on testability, maintainability and other good code practices. If you are not familiar with them, I recommend read about them ASAP as there is big chance that you are doing those things described in this post and don't even realize how wrong they are. Believe me, you will soon find yourself a way better developer.

He also advocates splitting out logic and putting it into a model to make future enhancements easier (and make for cleaner code), avoiding the use of exit/die in your scripts and quick mentions of the includePaths setting in the application.ini file as well as things like addJavascriptFile/addStylesheet/addOnload.