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In response to one of the constant claims about the Zend Framwork – that it’s large and bloated – Juozas Kaziukenas tries to dispel three things that people use to reinforce this belief.

Zend Framework is always considered as being the slow/bloated one. I don’t think this is right, so I decided to prove that it’s not correct and in fact ZF is as good as other frameworks are. This post doesn’t cover any benchmarks though; this is more like a architecture review and some misconceptions disproof.

He counters the following with a bit of logic that makes the points a bit more shaky than they first seem:

• Large installation footprint
• Unnecessary features
• Use more system resources

If you’re still not convinced, he offers two other tips to help streamline your Zend Framework install – profiling to find the bottlenecks and using Zend_Application sparingly as it can be a bit of a resource problem.

A recent tutorial (screencast) has been posted to the ZendCasts.com site looking at creating custom Zend_Form elements when you need something more than just the usual, simple elements.

This video should help you build your own composite Zend_Form element. We’ll be building a phone element. The phone element will have 3 textboxes, one for geographic location, area code and local code. In the following videos will add a custom cell phone validator and some ajax validation.

You can grab a copy of the source if you’d like to follow along or you can just look around the repository to find the source for this and other great lessons from the site.

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