About three weeks ago, I posted my initial thoughts on the Zend Framework. One of my complaints was the Zend_Cache did not accept lifetimes on a per object basis, but rather the lifetime was at an application level. I just received notice in my inbox that the issue has been fixed! The change is currently in svn, and should be in the 0.80 preview release. Thanks go to Fabien for the fix.

I came across this interesting proposal for an application generator built on top of the Zend Framework. It is called Primitus and is the brainchild of John Coggeshall. It looks very interesting and could quiet down those that complain about Zend Framework not living up to the ease of use they imagined it would. I’ve heard all too many people think that ZF should be as easy to use as Rails. In many ways I agree and this could provide that hand holding many want. Of course, those that still want more flexibility can use ZF without this (or another) application generator. You’ll find a first release of Primitus at the end of the propoal.

I’ve been using the Zend Framework to recode a large website and I’ve generally been very pleased with the results and ease of use. I’ve found that using the framework has significantly decreased my development time and really just given me cleaner, easier to maintain code. Of course, these are the goals of any framework. I do have a couple of issues I’ve come across and it is those I’d like to talk about.

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I’ve been on the hunt for any and all documentation I can find on the Zend Framework. I came across a tutorial that’s been around for awhile, but constantly updated. I figured that if I hadn’t seen it before, maybe you haven’t either. It’s the best tutorial I’ve found to date for someone looking to learn how to utilize the MVC capabilities of the Zend Framework. You can find the tutorial at Rob Allen’s blog.