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

I'm in your exact situation right now (just less years with php :P)

Currently i'm using Zend FrameWork in action as reference and for what i've seen till now it's pretty easy to reuse your structure from old jobs. Once you've setted up your preferred options and tree structure you can reuse it over and over.

So I think that it's better not rely to third party generators and create your own skeleton. In this mode you will be much more comfortable with the code structure, and you'll have better code's grasp.