Zend Framework will certainly bring about a major paradigm shift in the PHP spectrum and I am very impressed by the quality of code it offers BUT the only thing that has been discouraging me from adopting this remarkable framework is that it wants to become yet another pear library. I want all my code, including the framework to be an integral part of my application. In effect, I make sure to the extent possible that the only dependency to my application will be PHP itself. This is where the size of ZendFramework comes into play. Let's say that I am developing an e-commerce product which I want to sell and I want it to work out of the box on any standard PHP5 hosting. In this case, I cannot afford to have 120MB of framework code where as my actual application code is hardly 2MB. The zend-framework must provide an option for the users to pick and use one or some of its features independently so that I can get away with picking only the MVC, DB and AUTH parts and greatly reduce the code overhead.
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