Second stab at Zend Framework

[Jackolantern]

Ok, as some people here know, probably about a year ago I was trying to learn more about enterprise-level PHP development and first started checking out the Zend Framework. I quickly got frustrated trying to get it all set up and configured and it also looked quite complex.

Well, I decided about a week or two ago to give it another check, and this time I am wondering why I had problems with it before! I got it all setup within about 45 minutes from download to creating projects with the help of the 2nd comment (the long one) on this page that details the setup process and errors you may get when installing on Windows.

Now I am loving it! The command-line tool makes setting things up so easy, and it just seems like no matter what you want to do, Zend has a component to help you do it faster, cleaner and easier! I still like CodeIgniter, but it is hard to stack CI up against Zend. They were never designed to be the same thing by any stretch of the imagination (CI is like "PHP framework lite").

I highly suggest for anyone else who uses PHP to check out the Zend Framework. Clean yet flexible MVC, hundreds of awesome components, a gigantic community, an entire IDE and open source server designed specifically for it, and more!

[hallsofvallhalla]

awesome to hear. Thanks for the review.

[Jackolantern]

Hmmm..yeah...maybe this was more of a review than general development discussion lol. I didn't set out to make it review-like, but I guess I didn't really solicit any discussion on the topic haha.