Zend Frameworks
Have you ever heard about how awesome something was, but assumed it was hard to learn, and never bothered with it? Well, I’ve recently been looking into PHP resources, and open source frameworks, and libraries to become a better programmer. Well today I was looking into a handful of frameworks, and Zend Framworks was kind of recommended as one of the better frameworks out there.
I’m really impressed with how flexible it is, ans far as how you could structure an application with it. The recommended structure is the model-view-controller, and it seems to make the most sense, but there is no defined structure. In fact, there is only a library folder. You do the rest. You could very easily integrate your favorite PEAR library, use Smarty, or even extend classes within the frameworks.
I’m very excited to see what I can build with this now that I’ve seen what’s possible. I’ve also found a pretty handy video tutorial that helped me learn the basics pretty quickly.