For the past couple of days I’ve been working on a big corporate project and I wanted it to be running on a flexible framework. My first choice was the Zend Framework. I’ve used it before, a couple of years ago, when me and some colleagues had to develop a rather complex system for archiving army related documents. I was rather new to Zend Framework’s (ZF) approach so it took me a while to get a grip on it. After a couple of days though things made sense. Based on this experience I was sure for any future projects I would definitely use ZF.

Well that day has come! My first steps were to find the sources of the ‘archiving system’ that I was working on, just to refresh my memory. Unfortunately though, those files were lost due to a HDD crash I had a year ago. After a short conversation with Iacovos, I ended up reading the documentation. After 2 hours of work, I managed to get a basic system running using ZF’s basic classes. Even the DB module worked like a charm. Then everything came back to me. The problem though was that when I was working with ZF for the first time, it was still on ‘Beta’ stage. Now, it reached to a final release and I can code without any worries!

ZF gives you a lot flexibility and there is a class for almost anything that you might want. These guys thought of almost anything! You will be amazed on how fast things can be done. So if you ever need a framework to have a flexible and modular project, ZF is just right!
I think I just got a new favorite PHP framework…as if I had one before