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Nice to see some code :)

The manual is helpful. Note thought that the Zend_Controller is not documented yet. I've had a play and it seems easy enough though. My notes are up on http://www.akrabat.com/2006/03/04/zend-framework-front-controller/ but of course, I might have misunderstood it :)

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 at 14:09:28 GMT Link

Will most likely never use it as a framework but the pdf and searching bits look extremely interesting.

It would be nice to see those end up in pear.

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 at 15:50:43 GMT Link

The acid test will be to see if you can live without Zend.php :)

I might test this evening.

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 at 17:17:15 GMT Link

I downloaded ZF and took a quick peek at some code.

I noticed a class that extends Exception. Am I correct that, since only php5+ has exceptions, this is not something I can use with some old php4.3 code I have? Sounds interesting in any case.

Off topic: I got stuck in the DC airport last week, and used the time to read Essential PHP Security. Great book Chris - very useful material.

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 at 20:03:03 GMT Link

Chris, I agree that depending on Zend.php isn't necessarily a problem, especially as it contains the registry. However it does introduce more coupling as you are then forced to keep the basic directory structure so that loadClass() works.

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 at 20:31:26 GMT Link

But why the final "advertising" clause of an otherwise new BSD license? The reason for the existance o the new BSD license was because the advertising clause in the original BSD license was fundimentally incompatible with the open source model.

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 at 22:11:22 GMT Link

This is from man

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To create an instance of Zend_Db_Adapter for your particular database backend, you need to call Zend_Db::factory() with an array of parameters describing the connection. For example, to connect to a MySQL database called "camelot" on the local host as a user named "malory":

<?php

require_once 'Zend/Db.php';

$params = array (

'adapter' => 'pdoMysql',

'host' => '127.0.0.1',

'username' => 'malory',

'password' => '******',

'dbname' => 'camelot'

);

$db = Zend_Db::factory($params);

?>

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But if we look into sources, we can find this

....

static public function factory($adapterName, $config = array())

{

if (!is_string($adapterName) or !strlen($adapterName)) {

throw new Zend_Db_Exception('Adapter name must be specified in a string');

}

....

So, as i think, need to improve manual...

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 at 12:56:13 GMT Link

This is an exciting time for PHP developers. I have a big project in the making, and I'm going to "risk" building a big part of it on the ZF, in order for me to learn more about it (getting your hands dirty is still the best way to learn, I believe), but also to start using something that I believe I will use for quite some time to come.

Thank you so much to everyone that contributed, I hope the community embraces ZF, making it the de-facto standard for PHP dev taks in the (not-so-distant) future.

This is really great, seeing the progress and seeing it all come together to this point. Wow.

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 at 21:40:19 GMT Link

Hi experts, I read most of the ZF Manual. There is a suggested directory structure. I just wondered what should go into "models". I understand the model is a layer between the controller and the view... What is an elegant way to do this with ZF?

--- Florian

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 at 21:35:15 GMT Link