Something that I think ZF really needs are pre-built modules which immediately work when dropped into an application. It's near impossible to do before since there's no guarantee that a ZF project follows the recommended structure. I ported my CRUD module from another project to Zend_Application with the goal of making it work in any Zend_Tool-created project with minimal fuss.
svn co http://mz-project.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/modules/crud The resulting directory should be copied into the application/modules directory. As long as the modules resource plugin is enabled and a default Zend_Db_Table adapter is set, it should just work. The pages would be unstyled though since nothing is added to the public directory. I made another module that simulates serving of public resources from inside module directories: svn co http://mz-project.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/modules/modules I wonder if there's any interest in these things? I started making an auth+ACL module but I kinda gave up since it's really hard to make it generic. If there's any interest perhaps I could start it over again. -- Mon