I don’t use Rails, Django or Cake so I’m really not in a position to comment specifically. What I would say however is that the first two are not PHP based frameworks so we’d get into the surrounding questions such as how available hosting is for Ruby and Python based applications. How many clients have existing projects that are PHP based but need some re-organising, etc.

Cake is of course PHP based but it’s hard to convince clients of the value of a web application called Cake when comparing it to one with the backing of Zend and the involvement of companies like IBM.

In other words you could well be right but this is just one tiny facet of the decision-making involved with choosing a framework.

As an aside I’ve followed Django more than I have RonR or Cake and would like to give it a go myself sometime. I notice you have some Django code on your site so I’d be interested to hear about your experiences with it and why you’re looking at ZF.

In Controller:

$view->headerTemplate = 'modules/header.tpl.php';
$view->footerTemplate = 'modules/footer.tpl.php';
$view->actionTemplate = 'pageIndex.tpl.php';
echo $view->render('site.tpl.php');

In View site.tpl.php

    render($this->headerTemplate)); ?>
    
        <!-- Everything in here comes from the action -->
        render($this-&gt;actionTemplate)); ?&gt;
    
    render($this-&gt;footerTemplate)); ?&gt;

foreach ($this->files as $val) {

In controler: $view->files = array(‘menu_admin.php’,'customers/customers_index.php’); echo $view->render(‘template_user.php’);

In view (template_user.php): files as $val) { $this->render($val); } ?>

[[code]]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[[/code]]

It may have broke because I added the starting php tag.

I have had a bit of a look at Zend_View_Helper but I wrote my form classes before it existed. Terry

Sorry about the problem posting your code, I have PHP Markdown installed to format these posts and it’s a fiddle trying to find its sweet spot with code and pre tags. Anyway, I tidied up your post for you, let me know if I made any errors.

You look like you have a few combinations in there. Out of interest have you looked at using Zend View Helper for generating the form or form elements here…

[[code]]czo1MTpcIiR2aWV3LSZndDthc3NpZ24oXCdDb250ZW50XCcsICRmb3JtLSZndDtnZW5lcmF0ZSgpKTsKXCI7e1smKiZdfQ==[[/code]]

…and if so how have you found it?