When Zend Framework was first announced, the developers have promised us one thing: extreme simplicity. I was 'extremely' excited, but it turned out that it wasn't the case. Ironically, Zend Framework is the most difficult one I have come crossed so far. I mean, as complicated as Symfony is, it has brilliant documentation and an active community to back it up.

He also comments on the level of documentation the framework has ("the documentation is often outdated, sometimes inaccurate"), the Zend_Search_Lucene component, some of what he thinks are missing components that should be in a 1.5 release, and a last jab at the naming conventions.

This introduction provides the reader with details on a few different topics - making a custom template for the user login form, pass an "editable node" into said form, alter the values in it, and make the page easily accessible for the template file.

Being a tutorial, he steps you through every bit of the way, complete with code and explainations (and screenshots) to make the lesson easier. You'll need to know some PHP before getting into this - it's more than just a simple HTML template change.

I started the PHP Life cartoon strip last week, and thanks to encouraging feedback both here and via email I bring you the second installment. This week I'm taking a small pot-shot at the new Zend Framework - and the PHP Life guys have moved over to their own domain at www.phplife.org.

So, if you enjoyed the premiere edition of the strip, be sure to add phplife.org to your reading habits.

Now all he needs is an RSS feed to let us know about updates...]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2005 06:44:57 -0600