Greetings

[AuL]

I'm the newest new guy (pronounced n00b).

I'm feverishly devouring everything ZF I can find on the web and hopefully my brain can organize a hierarchy and output something that puts this well-put-together collection of code to good use.

4 days in with a ZF MVC installation in a Windows XP XAMP dev enviornment. I've crash-coursed the MVC pattern concept and I've successfully made a custom controller that is dispatched from the bootstrap. Now I'm off to explore Zend_Form, Zend_Auth and Zend_Db in hopes that the next big social network could start here on my keyboard (I could win the New York Marathon as well).

I didn't really want to ask a question in my general greeting but I think I'm about to allude to one anyway. I'm catching on to the work flow of the request object, but I'm not yet sure when it's appropriate to extend core classes or where to put my custom classes if I do need to extend something from the Zend library.

Other than that, thanks for being open source and sharing great code.