Ah yes. It is in the reference guide but not the API docs. From looking through tutorials that started talking about this feature, I then turned to the API for exact details on the function.
As you showed, it was in the reference guide, which I did not check on this occasion. And as it where, I do like to understand all the bits of a component when I'm learning about it. I do like to know how things work so I might be able to use it better. cheers! Fozzy Daniel Latter wrote: > > 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. >> > > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/ZF-Where-to-begin-tp787666p788343.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
