History of e-Shtab.ru

Theses

Architecture:

• Zend_Application, Zend_Config, Zend_Controller, Zend_Router
  
• MySQL, Zend_Db_Select, Zend_Db_Table, Zend_Db_Row
  Table and Row have partly performed the Model role.
• Smarty
  We gave up using PHTML because of its extreme flexibility, posibility to change the data right in the template.
• Zend_Feed, Zend_Pagination, Zend_Openid

Problems:

• Smarty autoescaping
  The programmers' forgetfulness became a problem, we missed out too many XSS holes.
  The problem was solved via patching the Smarty by adding variables autoescaping functionality.
• Console jobs
  Zend Framework does not provide instruments for creating console tasks (crontab, management tasks).
• A lot of problems related to character encodings
• Unintuitive URL-Router (upside-down)
• Error in long email subject in Russian
  We had to spend a few days, to solve the issue.
  http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-1688 (07.07.07—18.01.09)
• Notice, warning instead of Exceptions
  At first we paid no attention to them, which led to bad consequences a few times.
  As a result, we haven't elaborated correct coding style, which we got in other programming languages, where the bad-quality code is denied by compiler / interpreter.
• Reusability
  Few parts of code we were able to use again without a pain.
  A lot of things were created by copy'n'paste of existing code.