I must say that ZF is worth the learning curve. The more I use it, the more I like it.
Now, if I could just convince my developers of the same...

I've been using it now since ZendCon 07 and I found Akra's notes by chance. It really gets to grips with the basic structure of the framework and provides a great starting point.

When you start to look for more complex functionality I've found a combination of the Reference Docs and the API docs the approach that suits me best. It took a while for me to get used to the way the reference docs are written, but I think through use of the framework and reading the docs it starts to make alot of sense.

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