Why choose the Zend Framework over other PHP Frameworks?

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• php
• zend framework
• killersites
• stefan mischook
• web programming

[Roots876]

I am looking for a book that provides newbies a good approach to learning ZF.

Is there a book, or a site, or a forum for newbies to buy or visit to learn ZF?

[killerphp]

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[web51]

So what are the disadvantages with using Zend Framework?

[killerphp]

@web51 That's a good question, I invite you to post your questions in our Killersites Forum Community, where you'll find a host of administrators and web designers/programmers who will be happy to answer all your questions and work out any problem with you. It would be great to have you join our community!

[deanclkclk]

Spent about a month and a half learning Zend and I must say, I love the framework but, the documentation and support is horrible. What good is a framework, if there is little support in the community?

[killerphp]

@deanclkclk

I agree. Good docs are crucial for any software.

[stegre]

Is this video also backed by the zend company? :)

[lgarvey]

"Nerd technical reason" FTW!

[stonetwig]

If you develop with MVC, there is not that big difference between many frameworks. Or well, there may be but I think most people may overcome that quite fast.

I use CodeIgniter because it's free, open source (anyone can take over the development), lightweight, it isn't "over engineered", I can install it easily on a web hotel and it fits my needs perfectly.

I want to be able to dive into the code directly, hate big clumsy IDEs/Frameworks which is boring and takes forever to learn.

[mbriedis]

I'm with Kohana

[bxyify]

@willzurmacht I find, CodeIgniter is so far the framework, I was able to learn the fastest. Also the userguide is pretty well written without much blabla, just straight forward "I want this or that, what does this class provide me to get it?"

[bxyify]

Either you use MVC or you don't. Mixing both in one application is stupid and causes confusion.

Using Zend because it is made by Zend? Well... thats not a valuable reason.

So far, my questions are not answered.

[JuanEscobarOrg]

@Roots876 I think the best site for learning about ZF is the official site. framework(dot)zend(dot)com/

[getmizanur]

I zend framework is greate however if I really have to pick a fault, it has to be its documentation. I'm currently looking into yii framework and it looks promising, I may try to implement this in my next project

[willzurmacht]

Up to now I still don't understand why people call Zend Framework the Best framework. Seriously, can someone cite some HUGE websites that you can't do with CodeIgniter?

[Jeebs24]

I use CakePHP for the MVC and use Zend Framework for all their other libraries. Is that wrong? I think I have the best of both worlds. I can have my "cake" and eat it too.

[rasdy061]

why is it that Zend is not popular here in some I.T. Companies here in our country, rather they are using lightweight frameworks like CodeIgniter based on my observation

[bolshevik2]

Sadly there are no good PHP frameworks out there. I agree ZF is better than Cake, Symphony, CodeIgniter, etc but it is still not the solution. ZF requires a bunch of hacks and bad integrations to generate a working MVC solution that requires hardcoding with their strict ruleset. If a very powerful IDE was integrated with ZF the way Visual Studio is integrated with .NET it would be feasible. Unfortunately that is not the case since Zend Studio does not integrate so well with ZF.