No Microsoft SQL Server support on Linux
I have spent three hours trying to get Microsoft SQL server connection working. That included recompiling php-extensions and lot's of googling before it was obvious that it is not possible because the framework is actually broken. There is no way you can access Microsoft SQL server from linux-server with Zend Frameworks 1.7.4 without fixing the framework itself! There is no dblib-adapter and you can not have mssql-adapter with linux-server*.
File-element probably does not work correctly with Zend_Dojo_Form
I have spent at least three hours trying to get file uploads to function with Zend_Dojo_Form and now I am quite sure that it is not possible because Zend_Dojo_Form is broken and kills the form element and validation of the form**.
Probably bad placement of call for view helper kills server
[Thu Feb 19 16:29:36 2009] [notice] child pid 11847 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
I added a view helper, called it from the form view script and voilâ, server crashed. Probably somewhere hidden in documentation is that this is bad idea and should not be done as child calls parent and parent recalls and .... Now my form view script has function F instead. Same code, different place and it works.
Disabling Form elements on creation does not work with plain Zend_Form_Elements
With "Zend_Dojo_Form_Elements" you can use "disabled" to disable the elements and with "Zend_Form_Elements you can not". The latter creates code 'disabled=""' which is wrong. ***
There are a lot good things in Zend Frameworks but now I am seriously starting to doubt if it is worth of it. The learning curve (requires reading the framework code to find out if it is your bug or theirs that kills the day) is very steep. Fixing something that other people constantly fix and polish is also a very bad idea.
* I use PDO-directly with dblib.
** I gave up and do not use form's validator and use standard php mechanisms for moving uploaded files
*** I added function F($string) which replaces html-tags with other html-tags and also deletes 'disabled=""' from the form-element output.