I started working on a new project today, which I hope to write about as I work through the different parts and challenges presented. I’m developing the project in PHP using Zend Framework with Doctrine ORM for the database layer. I’ve used ZF for a few projects now and it just keeps getting better and more mature. I’ve been reading about Doctrine ORM and read a few articles about integrating it with ZF and so far it’s been really good, although I’ve just barely scratched the surface.

The frontend of the project is going to just use the Zend Application MVC tool, but for the backend I’m using ExtJS. I’ve been a fan of ExtJS and used it for a few projects now but this time I’m trying something new – I’m using Zend_Json_Server to provide the data directly to ExtJS. I’m still working out how it works, but basically you create the objects on the backend, enable Zend_Json_Server and then your objects and methods are available right within the Ext.Direct and Ext.DataStore objects. Very slick. Once I’ve figured it out more I’ll post some links to the resources that helped me the most.

Also, it seems that everytime I log into WP there is a software update… maybe I need to post more.