Zend_Form madness
It all started with a tutorial from Rob Allen, maybe from his book "Zend Framework in Action". A simple site to organize a CD collection list. Zend Framework seems very powerful but it will be insanity for someone to understand it without a tutorial of some kind.
Probably it started as a small project, it looks now like a behemoth. From the tutorial it seems the different parts are quite well integrated. Zend_Config can be used in various places but I am not the real fan of using INI files to store settings. Don't get me wrong, I like settings files but not text ones to parse. PHP's interpreter and its friends, all the bytecode cache are, quite good at using native define()-s or arrays.
I followed the tutorial made changes, as I wanted to really get the feeling of that software. A lot of magic. I don't feel comfortable with all that magic. I _just_ feel quite better when I understand what happens. Yes, I don't understand what every bolt in the cars I ride do but when it comes to my area of expertise, the computers, I should know. Anyway. nobody is born ready for programming.
My current fight is with Zend_Form. I want to make the Submit button in a simple form an image. Pretty easy it is with simple HTML, however with Zend_Form I don't find an example. Weird :(. Anyway, Zend_Form is everything but the kitchen sink, this makes it powerful, I like it. Better documentation would have been good. The documentation online is not bad, at least the code is documented. Bravo for Zend's documentation team but please more examples, tons! A picture is worth more than thousand words, an example too!
Very good presentation, from the Zend_Form author can be seen on SlideShare here.
Enjoy!
P.S.
Whoever has the answer to my problem, Zend_Form and submit button that is an image, maybe with an Image decorator if I understood the concept at minimum, please post. That would be great!
