Re: Calling All Opinionated ******** ....

On Feb 1, 2008 4:18 PM, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > So far I've only used the Zend_Mail functionality and it beats everything else I've tried as far as extensibility and performance are concerned. I've tried out several different packages and it just wins. The docs are great, it has unit tests on all parts of it, and there are lots of eyes looking over it, it's a no brainer!