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I just wanted to jump in here and say that the company that I work for started using zend framework a good 8 months ago or so. At first, reading about it, and the benefits, it seemed like a great idea, and I was totally on board. After using it for the last 8 months, I can honestly say I can't stand it. We've got 25 very experienced PHP guys here, and yet, the documentation for zend framework is so bad, that any time anybody has to do anything new with it, it takes 3 times as long as it should, because of digging through horrible docs. Yes, all the information is there, but to find it is all but impossible. Thank goodness that Zend framework is a use-at-will framework, and modular enough to use only the parts you want to, because we've started only using the MVC and nothing else. Everything else we try to use has too much overhead (both in terms of performance, and maintainability) to be worth the small amounts of benefit we get. Have you ever tried using zend form? Don't. It's definitely not worth the pain you need to go through if you need any kind of customized form that's more than a few text boxes. And if all you need are the few text boxes, creating all the files and crap that you need to do for a zend form is ridiculous. The only problem now is that even though we are only using the MVC part of the framework (we even had to hack the router to get the URLs that we wanted), we still have the overhead of zend framework. We're all wishing that we had used codeigniter (I've used it for past projects and it worked great. flexible, easy to use, and gives you what you need without the bloat... oh, and the documentation is usable). We're a little far in to be able to just change over at the moment though...
Just thought I'd give my 2 cents on the subject.
