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

On 2/1/08, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote: > 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 :-) Hilarious. "I'm in the market for a new framework, but please only tell me about ZF because I don't want to spend my own time researching stuff for myself." Since when is learning something new a crime? Why are you even a programmer? ZF works fine if you don't mind all the bloated OO PHP. Use it or don't. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/