Hi,
I have a pretty large online-store project ahead of
me. I have the next 2 months to develop it and am
starting now; I am confident I can finish this in time
with my 'old' coding style.
However, I have installed and gone through the
'getting started' tutorial of Zend, and can see how
useful and powerful the framework can be. However I
can also see that more complex tasks are (at the
moment) beyond me and I really need to spend a lot of
time working with the framework to understand how to
implement different functionalities. For example, I am
only trying to learn now how to build a basic form and
process the data (using the MVC logic), I can't
imagine when I will know how to connect to a database,
manage sessions and implement a complex Ajax-based
products detail page with shopping cart. So, from what
I can see, Zend sounds so useful, but I will probably
have a significant learning curve if I want to build
this particular project under a framework, since
frameworks in general are new to me.
Therefore, my question is this - can I "keep" Zend
installed on my server, and use its capabilities for
the simpler tasks (e.g. building a form).. but at the
same time, I will include my own class file from the
index.php file (this class file will be a php file
that has all the small functions that I've used over
the past few years and find useful for my projects).
Therefore, I will write some extra code in index.php
to call my own class file and generate an object,
include('../my_general_class_file.php');
$conn = new MyGeneralClassFile;
The $conn variable will therefore be available for my
scripts, whether these scripts will be developed in
the way I'm used to (i.e. using php include files that
will be included via index.php) or if necessary the
$conn variable will also be able to be accessed as a
global variable in the Zend class files that I build
in the future.
Does anyone have any comments on this or any
recommendations? The point is, I don't have the time
to fully work on Zend for this particular project, yet
I want to "keep" Zend installed and ready so that I
can use it for particular tasks for learning,
eventually using more and more of the framework as I
become more familiar with it.
Many thanks!
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