Also, I find ZF teaches you about design patterns and principles
through implementation, i feel you are learning more than just
Framework, maybe this is part if the issue also?
On 25 Nov 2009, at 18:32, Rob Riggen <[email protected]> wrote:
I've been very frustrated with ZF - specifically in regard to the
lack of helpful how to and tutorial information. There is very
little out there that is even close to up-to-date. If the official
documentation wants developer to "connect the dots" on their own, it
seems to leave a little too much room between the dots for me.
I've developed many applications using ZF. I started using it well
before many of the new components became available. It takes so
much time and experimentation to figure out how to implement the new
components that it almost seems impractical if you want to actually
get something done (vs study and learn).
I've also created applications using CI and Symfony and found those
frameworks much better to use from the standpoint of being able to
actually accomplish some work. The documentation and tutorial help
is much more readily available and suited to an experience developer
jumping in and getting work done.
ZF seem more suited to academia than someone trying to run a
business developing applications, IMHO.
Rob
Rob Riggen (802) 662-1069 [email protected]
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:20 PM, swilhelm <[email protected]> wrote:
I want to second this post. I have used ZF for some projects earlier
this
year and I am right on the cusp of making a major decision: explore
ZF 1.9
more deeply or abandon ZF and PHP altogether for Ruby on Rails.
ZF Documentation seems almost passive aggressive, providing examples
to get
started, but lacking enough information to build, test, and deploy
production quality, maintainable websites.
Maybe it's a case of "the grass is always greener on the other side
of the
fence" but Ruby and RoR seem to be better suited to quickly and easily
develop production quality websites.
I don't want to start a ZF vs RoR discussion, though that might be
interesting. I would like to hear how others have become proficient in
building production websites using ZF.
- Steve W.
Fozzyuw wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been watching and playing with ZF for some time now. Never
very
> deeply at any given time and often putting it down for extended
periods of
> time (version releases).
>
> One thing that keeps happening is that ZF is growing quickly.
Which is
> good, but it's also hard to keep up.
>
> ....
>
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