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I have been using ZF on my companies website for several months now and everything seams to be going well but I have this feeling that I am not using it correctly or am not even using some features that I should be using.

So, are there any open source apps that I can go though to see how things are done? I just want to see how other people use it so I can get some better ideas. All of the tutorials that I have been able to find are really simple and small, I want something that is big and uses a lot of the frameworks components so I can get a real idea of best practices.
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I think if you read over manual of things that you find interesting, this is pretty much all you need. I think there are good enough examples there. I strongly suggest looking at Zend_Layout + Zend_Form. If any problem with those let us know.
I am not aware of any big free opensouce project with ZF.
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jmut wrote:I think if you read over manual of things that you find interesting, this is pretty much all you need. I think there are good enough examples there. I strongly suggest looking at Zend_Layout + Zend_Form. If any problem with those let us know.
I am not aware of any big free opensouce project with ZF.
I have read through the manual and all that but I still have things that I want to see how other people do them. The manual provides just small examples but I want to see the whole thing in the big picture case.
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Well, in one word, I don't know such big tutorial that would do/show all the stuff. Unless made in series or something, I think will be kind of complex to grasp and not really helpful.
Which topic is that you're interested in. Maybe we can built example based on that.
I mean you can't expect drop in solution anyhow, no matter how big/small example is. Solution depends on too many factors.
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I can't think of any large open source projects off hand. Largely the problem with open source frameworks, is that end apps tend to be unique only in their business logic and focus. Makes open source examples hard to come by.

I would perhaps suggest you locate the downloadable sources (if available) of the Zend Framework books. Cal Evan's book at least is fully published and he maintains a website for errata and code downloads.

Only other recourse is asking lots of questions and perhaps kickstarting a discussion topic on how to approach a ZF application. In the end there's no one true way if that what's you're looking for, since the framework is deliberately not documented in that fashion leaving decisions on best practice to the community to gradually determine and agree on if possible.
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jmut wrote:I am not aware of any big free opensouce project with ZF.
The new version of Cerberus (Helpdesk software) uses it as far as I know :)
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Chris Corbyn wrote:The new version of Cerberus (Helpdesk software) uses it as far as I know :)
After looking that they I am pretty sure im doing thins stupidly. Ima start a better convo for this... over some other forum here.
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Partly motivated by the need to start writing again. I just started a series on writing a blog application using the ZF on my blog.

Now that I've plugged myself I'll wait for that new topic to open for a convo...
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