Thread: Php zend

I'm currently studying for the Zend PHP 5 certification, and developing an application on the Zend Framework at the same time.

Do you need help with something?

how different/difficult is it from PHP itself? it looks like a completely different platform!

LOL,

Well you'll need a good grasp on Object Oriented Programming in PHP 5 and then you'll need to master at least one development pattern. For me its the Model View Controller pattern.

Then theres also the Holy Grail... SMARTY! Figure Smarty out and then maybe you can show me!

All messing aside, I'm up to my neck in it at the deep end and am struggling to keep afloat, if you dive in, be prepared for a steep learning curve, but it will all pay of fin the end... I mean, they have components for every possible scenario (at least that I can think of!)

We have people working on Smarty already but we can't seem to get Zned working - even hosting an existing site is a nightmare. Do you know a good place where we can find out more about it?

Well I presume you've already tried the official Zend Framework Guide

Then theres http://www.zftutorials.com

Theres a couple of videos on here ZEND FRAMEWORK TUTORIALS

At what point can you not get it to work? Whats your development box setup? You do have PHP >= 5.2.4 right?

If there's a aparticular module component of the Zend Framework you can't get to work, you'll have to check if your PHP configuration supports it. Have a look through the Zend Framework Requirements documentation for yourself.

We're trying it with Zned setup on BK and Digiweb. We've limited success on Digiweb. We're mostly Smarty Developers and ASP.net. Zend is brand new to us - a bit like running into an elephant actually!

Are there any freelance resources available that you know of?

So are these dedicated servers or what, how much control have you got over the PHP configuration? Don't you have a local test environment setup LAMP/MAMP/WAMP?

Sorry, not sure what you mean about freelance resources?

I'd agree about the seriously steep learning curve starting out, but I found sticking with the documentation and searching on the Nabble forum to be pretty good.

Starting out the Quickstart guide in the docs was useful, and there are some tutorials in the IBM developer works (sorry, don't have the link bookmarked) that I found good to work through. Also, there's an online book that looked pretty good the last time I had a read (it's a work in progress).

I'm running it on a blacknight VPS and didn't have any problems once I changed the vhost to make the /public folder the root...

Originally Posted by php.allstar

So are these dedicated servers or what, how much control have you got over the PHP configuration? Don't you have a local test environment setup LAMP/MAMP/WAMP?

Shared at the moment. Yes, we've setup two local servers

Originally Posted by php.allstar

Sorry, not sure what you mean about freelance resources?

Freelance developers.