Only you are going to know specifically why Zend Framework is superior to your custom framework. I suggest starting with several specific instances where it is better and extrapolating arguments from those. But in general:
+ Zend Framework is fully unit tested + You get a ton of stuff for free with it: MVC, access control lists, authorization, caching, configuration, database abstraction, localization, logging, e-mail, session and cookie management, request encapsulation, input filtering and validation, and more... + It's becoming a PHP standard, which means community support + Developers who already know Zend can be brought up to speed much faster + It's actively maintained; why reinvent the wheel? + You are not in the framework business; play to your strengths instead -Matt On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Admin Xife <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there really nobody who has searched for this kind of information? > Or somebody who created a slide or blog entry about that, or something > else? > > I would be very thankful for any help one could give! Every link, argument, > cite or fact would be great. > > Regards > > > > > Hi everybody! >> >> I am collecting arguments for the Zend Framework to present it to my >> bosses and i thought it would be helpful for others searching for the right >> application framework. >> I found some very useful slides and sites yet: >> * >> http://www.slideshare.net/zend/san-francisco-php-meetup-presentation-on-zend-framework >> * http://www.slideshare.net/luckec/zend-framework/ >> * http://framework.zend.com/whyzf/ >> >> What i am searching for now, are some facts and/or studies concerning how >> unit tests, good documentation, an open-source community, etc. increases the >> quality of code/application itself, the productivity, the speed of >> development and how it lowers the time for a new developer to get >> up-to-speed quickly. >> >> The reason why i am searching especially for this facts is the condition >> of our self-made framework. Some facts: >> The framework has a "component-based" like architecture, but it has no MVC >> approach. It was designed about 6 years ago - which is not a bad point - but >> somehow most of the new developments out there are missing or they were >> implemented without refactoring some parts. Refactoring itself never >> happened. There are no Unit Tests and there is no useful documentation - in >> fact there is NO documentation or API reference available!! - I think that`s >> the main problem. I also see a big problem when it comes to develop a new >> application and new developers begin to work. >> When you get how the framework works, after much reverse engineering, it >> has also some very useful techniques and advantages for developers. >> >> Our web-application which is build upon this framework, is kind of stable >> and most of its users are satisified. But I think that the productivity with >> the zend framework would be better, it is more "future-proof" than our >> current framework and the quality would be higher than now - This is what i >> want to emphasize with some facts. >> >> >> I hope you could follow me and someone out there could help me finding >> some facts (and others searching for this kind of information / facts >> etc...) >> >> Thanks >> >> >
