Hello,
Well, what you're talking about is criticism and that's okay. That's
the heart of open source. It sounds to my uneducated ear that what
you're talking about is an architectural problem with an application
and not a problem with ZF. Your solution sounds very custom and not
transferable across other applications.
Is very transferable, since is applied to all sites who need to plug
data from multiple sources, the code to be reusable for varous sides of
site, aso. Anything: online shops, information sites, aso can be based
conceptually on this model...
After i saw the workaround (we need workarounds for complex sites !!!)
proposed by Padraic Brady on
http://blog.astrumfutura.com/archives/281-Complex-Web-Pages-with-the-Zend-Framework.html
i was thinking: then why we need Actions, Controllers and Views the way
are now on ZF if we need to basically ignore them...
I absolutely, 100% disagree with your assertion that an MVC framework
cannot work on a "real" site, whatever the hell that is. The
application needs to work with the framework, not the other way
around. If you are trying to shoehorn what you THINK is an MVC app is
supposed to be like with the way ZF is expecting things to be, well,
you'd better change your thinking.
I am just saying current way of implementing MVC on ZF is not very good.
Is proper for small sites or for more complex only if developer is doing
lot of messy things before starting to work on what he need to do.
Your idea of using zones is an interesting one, but why couldn't you
just have one controller per zone?
One controller/zone. Not more than one. Zones can be reused depending on
page, aso...
Am I missing something here or do
you really think your needs are so unique you can't use ZF?
I am using ZF, but i am saying that current approach is not suitable
because:
- for complex sites developer needs to adapt ZF to a more complex format
instead just doing his job
- other small problems i already mentioned in some circumstances as SEO aso
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Best regards,
Cristian Bichis
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