From david at davidmintz.org Wed Sep 12 16:02:22 2012 From: david at davidmintz.org (David Mintz) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:02:22 -0400 Subject: [zendframework] is it too complicated? Message-ID: I wonder how you guys weigh in on this question. ZF 2.0.0 is out and, although I confess that I have only read a bit of the code in the sample app, I can well understand why some people are complaining that it is * really* complicated. Too complicated? I know that's a subjective question whose answer depends on what your background is -- skills and knowledge you bring to the table, understanding of MVC and OOP and so forth -- and what you intend to use it for. But I'm interested in hearing what you have to say. FWIW, I have managed to live perfectly well without Dependency Injection. How hard is it to use ZF2 without using DI? Another question is, say you've built an app in ZF1. Try to migrate, or leave it be? Again, I know the answer is "it depends," but I'm still interested in hearing opinions. -- David Mintz http://davidmintz.org/ It still ain't over: http://healthcare-now.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From petros.ziogas at gmail.com Fri Sep 14 01:51:14 2012 From: petros.ziogas at gmail.com (Petros Ziogas) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:51:14 +0300 Subject: [zendframework] is it too complicated? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I must say that I haven't used ZF2 yet so I am not an expert by any standards. The fact is that I have some ZF1 applications that are quite big and I actually read somewhere "ZF2 is completely new system compared to ZF1, I don't think you can make such kind of migration without decent amount of recoding". Even if it seems to be more of a refactoring than recoding, the fact that the new framework cant handle, even partly, php code written some months ago is very frustrating. I am so glad that I decided to not use a lot of view helpers and action helpers. For now the framework stays ZF1 for me. Petros Ziogas On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:02 PM, David Mintz wrote: > > I wonder how you guys weigh in on this question. ZF 2.0.0 is out and, > although I confess that I have only read a bit of the code in the sample > app, I can well understand why some people are complaining that it is * > really* complicated. > > Too complicated? I know that's a subjective question whose answer depends > on what your background is -- skills and knowledge you bring to the table, > understanding of MVC and OOP and so forth -- and what you intend to use it > for. But I'm interested in hearing what you have to say. > > FWIW, I have managed to live perfectly well without Dependency Injection. > How hard is it to use ZF2 without using DI? > > Another question is, say you've built an app in ZF1. Try to migrate, or > leave it be? Again, I know the answer is "it depends," but I'm still > interested in hearing opinions. > > -- > David Mintz > http://davidmintz.org/ > It still ain't over: > http://healthcare-now.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Zend Framework Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/zendframework > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michaelburtonray at gmail.com Fri Sep 14 11:45:29 2012 From: michaelburtonray at gmail.com (Michael Ray) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:45:29 -0400 Subject: [zendframework] is it too complicated? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: You can't deny though that ZF needs to keep evolving. No need to upgrade an already released product right? I am curious as to what is in the new version. I hope it lends itself better to rapd application development. Michael Ray c 708-337-1079 michaelburtonray at gmail.com On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Petros Ziogas wrote: > I must say that I haven't used ZF2 yet so I am not an expert by any > standards. > > The fact is that I have some ZF1 applications that are quite big and I > actually read somewhere "ZF2 is completely new system compared to ZF1, I > don't think you can make such kind of migration without decent amount of > recoding". Even if it seems to be more of a refactoring than recoding, the > fact that the new framework cant handle, even partly, php code written some > months ago is very frustrating. > > I am so glad that I decided to not use a lot of view helpers and action > helpers. > > For now the framework stays ZF1 for me. > > Petros Ziogas > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:02 PM, David Mintz wrote: >> >> >> I wonder how you guys weigh in on this question. ZF 2.0.0 is out and, >> although I confess that I have only read a bit of the code in the sample >> app, I can well understand why some people are complaining that it is really >> complicated. >> >> Too complicated? I know that's a subjective question whose answer depends >> on what your background is -- skills and knowledge you bring to the table, >> understanding of MVC and OOP and so forth -- and what you intend to use it >> for. But I'm interested in hearing what you have to say. >> >> FWIW, I have managed to live perfectly well without Dependency Injection. >> How hard is it to use ZF2 without using DI? >> >> Another question is, say you've built an app in ZF1. Try to migrate, or >> leave it be? Again, I know the answer is "it depends," but I'm still >> interested in hearing opinions. >> >> -- >> David Mintz >> http://davidmintz.org/ >> It still ain't over: >> http://healthcare-now.org/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP SIG: Zend Framework Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/zendframework >> >> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Zend Framework Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/zendframework > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php From alan at alanseiden.com Sat Sep 15 17:40:47 2012 From: alan at alanseiden.com (Alan Seiden) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:40:47 -0400 Subject: [zendframework] is it too complicated? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5054F5DF.2020503@alanseiden.com> David, my plan is to learn as much as I can during this year's ZendCon, which will focus heavily on ZF2. I know several of us NYPHP'ers will be attending. Perhaps we should do a ZF2 topic when we return. Alan On 9/12/12 4:02 PM, David Mintz wrote: > > I wonder how you guys weigh in on this question. ZF 2.0.0 is out and, > although I confess that I have only read a bit of the code in the > sample app, I can well understand why some people are complaining that > it is /really/ complicated. > > Too complicated? I know that's a subjective question whose answer > depends on what your background is -- skills and knowledge you bring > to the table, understanding of MVC and OOP and so forth -- and what > you intend to use it for. But I'm interested in hearing what you have > to say. > > FWIW, I have managed to live perfectly well without Dependency > Injection. How hard is it to use ZF2 without using DI? > > Another question is, say you've built an app in ZF1. Try to migrate, > or leave it be? Again, I know the answer is "it depends," but I'm > still interested in hearing opinions. > > -- > David Mintz > http://davidmintz.org/ > It still ain't over: > http://healthcare-now.org/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Zend Framework Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/zendframework > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: