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 r...@riggen.org On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:20 PM, swilhelm <st...@studio831.com> 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. > > > > .... > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/ZF-Where-to-begin-tp787666p787731.html > Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
