I have found it is just like learning anything that is semi complex, and different than you are used to. It takes some time to build up your tool set to both adapt how you currently do things to ZF, and ZF to how you do things. Once you get a couple projects under your belt, you will have a pretty good understanding.
I started with very little OOP experience, and no MVC experience. On top of that it was just as ZF was moving to the new auto loader version. One of the main issues I found that helped me was to find one resource that covers most of the development from start to finish. One of the good parts and tricky parts of ZF is that you can do the same task 10 different ways. If you try and piece one online tutorial written by one person together with a different one written by another person it is hard to since everyone does it a little different. I would suggest finding one source that will demonstrate start to finish a project. For me this wasn't the quick start, but http://akrabat.com/zend-framework-tutorial/ really got me started. On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Daniel Latter <dan.lat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Personally speaking it's a case of practice, practice, practice. I feel > documentation can only get you so far and it won't be a panecea or all your > woes, like Sudheer says the best way is to get writing an app. What I found > useful was use this list ( or any of ) watch the questions comin through, > and compare replies with what you would have said, to the actual solution, > if there is one, this is a great way to test and enhance your understanding. > > > On 25 Nov b 2009, at 18:20, 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. >> >
