Published on 2005-12-04 01:01:02
After the Zend Framework Webcast, hosted by php|architect, many PHP expert involved or not in the project have reacted and added comments and thoughts about it. Chris Shiflett, expert in PHP security, posted notes and an overview figure of the framework.
The core focus of the framework is Extreme Simplicity. In order to achieve this, it must be very easy to use. This doesn't just mean that it must be simple to write code - it also needs to be useful in existing PHP environments without the need for external libraries or custom modifications. In many cases, this means that features must be implemented in pure PHP, so that they're available everywhere. For example, the search component is a pure PHP implementation of Lucene, and the front controller doesn't rely on a sophisticated collection of mod_rewrite rules.
Three components were demonstrated with use cases in this webcast which are the ZActiveRecord, ZMail, and ZSearch. You may check Chris post for further details and code snippets, which demonstrate the simplicity that have been implemented in the Zend framework.
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