Anthony Wlodarski’s Blog: Zend Framework and why it is important to read the source code.

Anthony Wlodarski makes an important point about what one of your first steps should be when considering a framework for your application – be sure to read the source first. In his case, it was the Zend Framework.

One thing I learned early on with ZF was that the curators and associates in the ZF ecosystem always fall back to the root of “read the code/api/documentation”. With good reason too! It is not the volunteers simply shrugging you off but it is for your own good.

He includes an example of the Zend_Validate_File_ImageSize component. By reading the manual you get an idea of the input and output values, but you don’t get as much of a sense of how it works unless you take some time to glance through the code.

4 comments to “Anthony Wlodarski’s Blog: Zend Framework and why it is important to read the source code.”

fierfeu
June 14th, 2011 at 2:21 pm

That’s exactly what I explained to my colleagues ! And the reason why I prefer the Zend framework : it’s code source is redable …

but please can you also you comment in the tests files… thoose files are less readable than source code !!

emxs
June 22nd, 2011 at 4:53 pm

i agree to a certain degree, but a good manual with understandable examples would make reading the source code obsolete – pretty often at least.

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