Comments on: Zend Framework Starters

By: Penton

Penton — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:30:19 +0000

Good effort. Keep it up

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By: PokerOConnor

PokerOConnor — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:36:30 +0000

Hi Michael,

thanks for posting! I would say the question is really “why use the Zend Framework at all?”, as Zend Form is only a constituent part of the framework. Main reasons for using ZF and therefore ZF forms would be that it is an object oriented MVC framework, and all the advantages that being so brings – code re-use, scalability etc…

I mean you can have jQuery or Dojo forms in the Zend Framework of course, and if you had a nice little class for your jQuery form, and were using the ZF, you wouldn’t necessarily need to “put a lot of time and effort” in every time you wanted to have a form on a html page.

I’m new to this too, but it makes sense I think.

Cheers

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:46:26 +0000

Newbie question:

Why use Zend Forms at all? I put a lot of time and effort into creating html docs with jquery, and I am quite satisfied with the forms that I have produced in the html, so why do I need to generate forms on the fly? Obviously I am missing something, but I can’t put my finger on the use cases for Zend Forms.

Thanks for any thoughts you may have.

- Michael