Comments on: Implementing your own Front Controller in Zend Framework

By: Making a custom front controller in Zend Framework | CodeUtopia

Making a custom front controller in Zend Framework | CodeUtopia — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:16:52 +0000

[...] are the posts he’s written so far: Implementing your own Front Controller in Zend Framework An Alternative to Zend_Controller: Introduction An Alternative to Zend_Controller: The Router [...]

By: Federico

Federico — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:56:41 +0000

Hi Jani.

Indeed, ZF is very flexible and allows you to implement your own front controller, router, dispatcher, etc. That’s the beauty of the framework. The Zend_Controller component is very powerful, and it’s not my intention to replace it, but to offer an alternative that decreases the number of decisions a developer needs to make.

ZF is a component-based framework and the components you use are based on your system requirements. My goal is to develop a front controller that is rigid instead of flexible, backwards compatible with ZF applications, focuses on speed, requires 0 configuration and favors convention over configuration. This alternate component may also help lower the barrier to entry for new developers.

By: Jani Hartikainen

Jani Hartikainen — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:09:11 +0000

I think it leans towards the “easy” side, of course depending on how complex functionality you need… tho mostly you prob. can use the builtin functionality and mix and match for your needs.

I get a feeling this series will again showcase how flexible ZF is =)