How to increase Zend Framework learning speed?

Question

A preamble: I\'ve been using PHP for over 8 year every now and then, but never used a framework, only wrote scripts and addons. Mostly I used code generators like CodeCharge Stu

Answer 1

If you're already acquainted with MVC and design patterns, then why not look into tools to helps you code faster?

Although I generally like free tools, I must say using Zend Studio IDE (based on Eclipse) helps going faster (30-day free trial).

The main points (apart from the debugger/profiler):

• it can generate a skeleton for MVC applications
• default code skeletons for basic bricks (controllers, views, models)

and -last but not least-

• auto-completion for all Zend classes (and you can Ctrl+click through the classes names to open them). Very convenient I must say.

Just make sure to have a computer with a whole lot of memory!