Let’s face it. The Zend Framework, like most web frameworks, has set some lofty goals: high quality components, a complete system for developing web applications, and simplicity. You can read the entire list of goals on the Zend Framework roadmap page. While quality code and documentation are important for frameworks—or any open source application for that matter, a true measure of success is mass adoption. After all, what good is a framework if no one is using it? As the framework is still sub-1.0 and mainly for early adopters, there’s an easy way to determine whether the Zend Framework is right for your development efforts. So who is using the Zend Framework?

Recently Lars Strojny posted to the framework mailing list to announce his project, PhpWishList (View a demo!). This prompted Zend’s own Gavin Vess to create a wiki page to showcase Zend Framework projects and applications. Shortly afterward, others pointed us to other projects found by searching Sourceforge and Google Code.

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Thursday, January 4, 2007

SLBUZZ DOES!

12:34PM PST · Mark Barrett [unregistered]

http://slbuzz.com/ (A Second Life related web site) is a spare time project of mine that heavily uses the Zend Framework. It's definitely a work in progress but coming along.

Friday, January 5, 2007

GREAT FRAMEWORK

2:27AM PST · jinlee2006

I used Zend Framework v0.2 to build a Real Estate Agent website where they can manage their listings easily.

MVC, input filter and routing/controller (like RoR) were the most appealing part of the Zend Framework -- and with future versions... I'm sure I'll find more stuff to enjoy.

Below are the clients who are using the resulted listing engine with cms built from scratch using Zend Framework.

http://www.westvancouverrealestate.ca/
http://www.macrealtyedmonton.com/
http://www.drobinsonassociates.com/
http://www.paulisaacs.com/

ZEND FRAMEWORK - 2 PROJECTS

4:02AM PST · thenemo78

We are using Zend Framework 0.6 for two very heavy projects. However, they are still under development. We also plan to upgrade them to version 1 when it is out.

These projects are quite large and are associated with financing and data center business.

Saturday, January 6, 2007

ZEND FRAMEWORK

9:50PM PST · jbailey

I haven't had much chance to look into the framework - I tried briefly with their Config object, which doesn't offer any way to have defaults in the config files (so that the user can leave out things that (s)he doesn't care about). The Db stuff doesn't explain why I'd use it instead of just using PDO directly, and things like Feed, Gdata, HTTP all seem like a pile of crap that should be outside of a core framework, or in a secondary repository like PECL or PEAR.

I think they've got the right basic idea, but I don't think that they're headed in the right direction. I hope I'm wrong. It would be nice to have a good framework. I'm updating a bunch of code from php3/php4 idioms to php5 and nothing on PEAR works with E_STRICT. I suspect alot of stuff is going to need to be written from scratch.

Sunday, January 7, 2007

SUDOKU MADNESS

11:02AM PST · breich

I used the Zend Framework to develope my Sudoku site, <a href="http://www.sudokumadness.com/">Sudoku Madness</a>. I used PR 0.2.0 to develop the site and intend to upgrade to the latest release soon, as well as add new features.

I primarily used the MVC framework provided by ZFW, as well as Zend_Filter.

Monday, January 8, 2007

4:59PM PST · lbarton

I use 0.6 - I'm an 18 year old, wannabe web developer.

I started writing my own MVC framework to aide my applications, then I gave Zend Framework a go. I'm never going to develop without Zend Framework again. The MVC concept is excellent. So is the Framework..

I'd never cached anything in my applications until I used the ZF, it took me 5 minutes from deciding their was a problem, to implementing a working example of Zend::Cache in a small project I've been undertaking. Ajax? No sweat. A tutorial from devzone and 30 minutes later, ajax retrieving cached news articles from an sqlite database.

I have no qualifications, certifications or commercial experience. I hadn't touched PHP in close to 18 months until a week ago. In 3 days, the Zend Framework hasn't become my swiss army knife - I wouldn't be lost without it - it's my tent, I wouldn't like to be without it. I've not used one library that has enabled me to do so much, so easily.

That's who I am and that's why I use the Zend Framework.

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