Wow this is a good feature like php.net . This will really help to get great documentation .

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This comment is addressed to the ones that made the downloadable version of the documentation:

a) thank you for writing a documentation.
b) the downloaded documentation/manual/core/en is full of HTML-Bugs
c) it doesn't contain an index-page
d) none of the html pages validates on http://validator.w3.org/
e) adding a stylesheet instead of putting an invalid STYLE tag in the middle of the code would have been an alternative that is not-so-unusual today

I assume the makers of the Zend Framework made great efforts to produce a high quality framework. The downloadable documentation will need some quality-check too.

best regards

I am really appreciating the effort zend framework development team.

do you have a pdf version of this framework manual ???

regards

Oliver

Downloadable version: No index? No table of contents?

Overall this Programmers' Reference Guide is quite average and even very poor in places.

There is a lot of content which is good but huge parts aren't written very well. Very little cross-referencing too which makes the long page formats tough to navigate. Better indexes (already mentioned above) and "jump to section" links are desperately needed.

The search is awful. It always has been and it frustrates me to no end by bringing back either no results or barely relevant results. I've put up with it for months but clearly it isn't something that's being worked on as there haven't been any perceived improvements in that time so I have finally snapped and am giving you some feedback!

For example I get no results if I search for "action helper" or "url". Really? No results? At least let me get some bad results so I can adjust my search terms appropriately.

Instead I must always use Google to search your documentation. Not ideal.

I quite like the new documentation format, but I would really prefer a .pdf version. So, here's another vote for .pdf.

Thanks!

Mark

Here, here for the .pdf version!!!
I'm aware that online documentation is a better and easier way to provide up-to-date accurate documentation but, i would love to see also a pdf version of the stable release available for those, who like me, like to do some offline( see before bedtime) reading...

examples given is not good as detailed one with folder example .please change this & give the view

PDF !!!!

Alex G.'s comments are completely on target: search is basically worthless, not enough cross-referencing, and system needs jump navigation because some of the pages are very long. The old system was superior, minus the ability to comment.

The quickstarts are good, but the main documentation is a big turn off. I'm sure your driving aware newbies.

I vote for PDF Version for impress.

i vote for PDF version +1 for impress in paper.

Pdf version will be very helpful. please make a pdf version. This is a vote for the pdf version.

I definitely need a PDF version!

I think that every title in each chapter should have a index too. It's really hard to find what I need on the page. And it's better to have an overview on each page!

There seems to be some improvement in search functionality, but still the index seems "off." For example, if I search for "progress" I should get at least one hit out of the page on File_Transfer, which has a heading that reads "Progress for file uploads." But no. Only something on pubsubhub....

Maybe incorporating Google Search via API would be a stop gap until search can be improved?

How come there's no pdf of the document?

For a newbee like me, most documentation is not very helpful.

For most components I tried to understand (Layout, Navigation, Auth, Acl) there was two to five examples on how to do exactly the same thing - this is really confusing. And for none of the components, there was really working code.

Examples:
From just the information you get here, try to build a sample app which does:
- Have a website with 3-4 different basic layouts (2-3 frontand and one backend)
- Session handling with user authorization
- Authentication
- Navigation
- MVC with proper sub-view (or partials) encapsulation

The quick start example answered at least some of my questions, but even that was far from enough.

Next Vote For PDF Version ...
Hope this will be the last Vote !

Super Manual Ist bald ein PDF verfügbar???

danke

if someone wants to have a QUOTE documentation UNQUOTE with more than NINE-THOUSAND errors (8.451 Errors, 543 Warnings doing a syntx-check and additional 26 Errors and 3 Warnings when checking the links) then proceed and get yourself the current fabulous zend framework documentation: ZendFramework-1.11.0-manual-en.tar.gz

Even if it's free it is a piece of impudence to publish that bag-full-of-bugs, folks.

regards - John

PS - seems they are unable to produce a simple 'Add-A-Comment' page without Errors: whenever I hit the 'ADD COMMENT' box I get the message 'Captcha value is wrong' - but some 'waiting-for-moderation-box' is popping up too???

Bye bye ZF.... I'll go for fat-free CodeIgniter with proper documentation instead... This framework is just too academic and does not fullfill our day to day requirements. While evaluating I've compared the amount of code needed for a certain project with other frameworks and it turns out, that (in our case... your use case might differ..) it takes much more lines of code to do the same thing in ZF... And again... The 'Programmers Reference' is NOT covering anything that it should... Only thing I'm interested in are functions/methods/classes and their in and out parameters in a readable format (javadoc style)... BTW: Copy & Paste of the code examples is rather painful, as it always copies the line numbers as well...

Toby, if you're looking for a javadoc style documentation, you can find the API docs right here: http://framework.zend.com/apidoc/core/

I can agree that the documentation is hard to navigate and search. I like the way the PHP folks did the view in the PHP documentation, its expandable and use the whole browser window.

Also I would prefer having the navigation on the left with an expandable tree and where you are hi-lighted like it is on this site gravstenar, I find it easier to jump to other subjects within the section.

This is great and handy, thanks a lot

I need zendframework in indonesia language,where can i download that???

i dont know why this framework is too hard not hard it's complicated
i want to say it need a lot of organisation some one tell me please about a framwork that satisfy much thing and have one logic please i am lost

@lost , my thoughts exactly. This is crazy!

This is more detailed than I anticipated: I started reading but I might need to print out a reference copy. J. Cairns[/url}

i also have been frustrated by the documentation. particularlly the ldap / zend conf / zend registry docs. and i'm dissappointed that after configuring settings in the application.ini file that i have to write so much code to retrieve those settings. seems like something the framework would do for me. other wise what's the point

Great share, thanks

Glad to see that this site,everything I want to do is functional. Thanks for keeping it up to date with the latest.

Is somewhere a PDF Version?

Quite insightful. Thank you

Zend Framework is the best!!!

Jwalls, if you are looking for the API documentation you can find it here. The reference guide contains a general overview, examples and use cases about the ZF classes.

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Another vote for an updated PDF version.

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Please PDF. Thank you very much

i found out extra-ordinary information thanks a lot....

I like the framework, I will carefully learn it

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+1 for the PDF

I note there is one here, but it's a very old version... http://www.zend.com/community/downloads

Another vote for an updated pdf version

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We are Web Design Company India and use Zend in many of our projects. Kudos to Zend team for such a wonderful product.