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[nycphp-talk] What are everyone's thoughts on Zend Framework.

Anthony Wlodarski ant92083 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 16:56:37 EDT 2010


I have been working with Kohana 2.x and 3.0.4 as well.  My doubts come from
what is going to happen with 2.x now that 3.0.4 is here, not to mention the
complete lack of docs for 3.x...

I was also evaluating Spring/Hibernate and have seen it is really really
nice, Django too as well.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Rob Marscher <rmarscher at beaffinitive.com>wrote:

> On Apr 16, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote:
> > What are your thoughts on ZF, what do you like about it and what do you
> dislike about it?
>
>
> Pro:
> It's nice and modular so you can pick and choose what you use.
> It has a lot of features/components.  I use a number of them (like
> Zend_Cache) in most of my projects.  Some of the abstractions for working
> with APIs are really nice too (Amazon, Flickr, etc).
>
> Cons:
> The MVC implementation feels a bit heavy compared to other frameworks -
> might be better with the ZF 2.0 PHP5.3 version since that allows for some
> shortcuts.
>
> You should give Kohana a look.  Some of our developers have had good luck
> with that framework.  Lithium PHP looks pretty cool too but given that you
> found CakePHP limiting, not sure these frameworks will solve that.  Not
> really sure what you're looking for that Cake didn't provide or allow.
>
>
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Anthony W.
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