Dont know what docs you were reading:? http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.view.helpers.html#zend.view.helpers.initial.headtitle
Also, you dont have to learn everything about a componant to use it, which it sounds like what you are trying to do. The survive the deepend book goes through creating a Blog App while touching base with many of the popular componanents as has been stated so this may be a good place to start if you want a tutorial in creating a ZF App. Thanks. 2009/11/25 Fozzyuw <[email protected]>: > > Thanks for all the suggestions and the discussion. > > I've been using ZF for probably over a year now, if not longer. But it's > been so on/off that I might miss a few big releases and then I find some big > changes. > > For example, I started using and practicing with ZF before Zend_layout. I > bought some early books on it. Followed along. Did tutorials. Had no > problems, even as I learned about MVC, which conceptually is easy to > understand. > > Then, I stopped for a bit, Zend_Layout came out, and everything was changed. > I started over learning Zend_Layout, stopped... and Zend_Form comes out. I > spent time learning that, rinse repeat. > > The problem is I tend to keep hitting brick walls. I'm trying to learn > something like using Zend_Navigation. Being a programmer by degree, I'm > fine using the API. But even the API doesn't tell me everything because I'm > looking through the Zend_Navigation code and I realize it's not the > Navigation class, it's a View Helper. It gets to the point that I start > reading the source code. For something like the Header Title element. The > API doesn't state you can "APPEND, PREPEND, or SET" as your three options. > I had to pop open the source to figure that out. > > It gets royally confusing until you actually get such a big foundation of > knowledge built up on ZF that it becomes more second hand. > > On top of that, there's "best practices" that come with MVC that's outside > of understanding what MVC is and how it works. Should this code be put into > a Model class? Or is it part of the View? Those kind of questions. > > Perhaps this Survive the Deepend online book is what I've been looking for. > It certainly sounds exactly what I'm feeling. > > I really want to learn ZF inside-out and even start writing my own tutorials > at some point, when I get that good, but right now I'm getting frustrated > trying to find a guided course to just transition some simple sites I have > now into ZF. > > I think ZF has tons of potential and it does have a lot of reference > material, but I feel there's a lot left out. As someone else said, a bit > passive aggressive. > > It's to the point that I feel like just going back to doing my own thing for > a framework because it takes so long to put things together. > > Cheers for the suggestions, though! > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/ZF-Where-to-begin-tp787666p787846.html > Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
