[Phpwm] Zend Framework Job at London Startup

[David Goodwin]

On 9 Jul 2012, at 09:40, Lester Caine wrote:

> Alex Mace wrote:
>>> The site is "finished"
>> Well, that just fills me with confidence that this is a great job! :-p
> 
> Perhaps they have now realised the mistake that they made using Zend at all ;)
> Now it needs a complete rewrite to work with Zend2 ?
> 
> ANYBODY find that Zend is a good base to work from? I've inherited a number of sites that are Zend based, but supporting them is a nightmare and so they are slowly being reworked in a more user friendly framework that also allows the customers to update their own content.
> 
> Also PIWIK has had to replace the Zend database library with a more efficient one, but it's too slow still for some functions. The Zend library DB itself is still very lacking in cross database facilities :(

I'm not a fan of Zend_Db or Zend_View - I'd much rather Propel or Smarty instead. 

I'll ditto your "I've inherited a number of sites which are ZF based" which are a mess/interesting tangle of spaghetti. 

I've been meaning to write a blog post moaning about one in particular, but so far I've managed to bite my tongue and not say anything.

David.