Calling All Opinionated ******** ....

hi people, I'm in the market for a new framework/toolkit/whatever-you-want-to-call-it. I've been taking a good hard look at the Zend Framework - if nothing else the docs are very impressive. I'd like to hear from people who have or are using ZF with regard to their experiences, dislikes, likes, problems, new found fame and fortune, etc ... but only if it concerns ZF. I don't need to hear stuff like 'use XYZ it's great' - finding php frameworks/CMS/etc is easy ... figuring out which are best of breed is another matter, if only because it involves reading zillions of lines of code and documentation. besides I find that you only ever get bitten in the ass by short-comings and bugs when your 80% into the project that needs to be online yesterday and you knee deep in a nightmare requirements change or tackling some PITA performance issue. so people, roll out your ZF love stories and nightmares - spare no details - share the knowledge. or something :-) tia, Jochem