Pretty much sums up how I feel about most of the big frameworks (Zend in particular, but also Symfony and CakePHP).
The problem of over-engineering isn't just related to the big PHP frameworks - the same problem exists in Python and Ruby.
At its core, web development is about taking some user input, validating it, throwing it in a database, and displaying it again (perhaps slightly modified) to users. That's a fairly simple concept, and frameworks should reflect that.
The problem of over-engineering isn't just related to the big PHP frameworks - the same problem exists in Python and Ruby.
At its core, web development is about taking some user input, validating it, throwing it in a database, and displaying it again (perhaps slightly modified) to users. That's a fairly simple concept, and frameworks should reflect that.