I received notification today that the Zend Framework was bumped to V1.5.1, with lots of fixes to the framework itself.
We (I mean Neil) used Zend Framework for the Weylandts CMS project (A great project which finally launched last week after several delays) when I worked at OgilvyInteractive (technically, I still work there, but due to health reasons, my last official working day was last Wednesday), and I’m using the framework in a freelance project I’m doing as well. I find at times, it’s great in what it achieves and how easy it is to do certain things, but other times, like the fantastic addition of the Zend_Form classes, where things are just too much of an effort to have to jump through the hoops required. I’m not fond of reinventing the wheel, and that’s what makes the Zend Framework so nice, you only use the bits and bobs you need, and you’re not tied into a huge array of restrictions like other frameworks.
4 comments
Wil Sinclair says:
27 March 2008 at 21:32 (UTC 2 )
I’m sorry, I don’t understand this sentence: “I find at times, it’s great in what it achieves and how easy it is to do certain things, but other times, like the fantastic addition of the Zend_Form classes, where things are just too much of an effort to have to jump through the hoops required.”
Do you mean there are things in ZF that are hard to use? If so, could you please let me know. Thanks.
,Wil
aubrey says:
27 March 2008 at 21:36 (UTC 2 )
No, I wouldn’t say they’re hard to use, it’s just some things require too much work to make it work. Zend_Form, for instance, came along after I already created my own form creation and validation classes, and to replace my classes with Zend_Form’s for the pure sake of using Zend_Form was going to be too much effort.
Wil Sinclair says:
28 March 2008 at 02:57 (UTC 2 )
Not to toot our own collective horn, but that’s the great thing about the use-at-will architecture. You might want to try adding or refactoring forms incrementally using Zend_Form. In fact, Zend_Form uses Zend_Validate and Zend_Filter, so you shouldn’t have to change your existing rules if you’re already using these components.
Best of luck whatever direction you go in.
,Wil
aubrey says:
28 March 2008 at 04:35 (UTC 2 )
That’s why I mentioned the use-what-you-want-only architecture of ZF in the first place.
I guess I was just too lazy to implement Zend_Form for the few forms that I had, just for the sake of using it, after I already did my own thing.