I’ve been making slower than wanted progress with my project. The reason is primarily that I’ve not had the time I’d like to dedicate to it as I’ve been trying to focus on an exam I have to sit on Monday. A secondary reason is that a whole bunch of things have changed since I last used the Zend Framework (March 2008) so I’m pretty much learning it from scratch which is far slower.
I’ve a few questions I’m planning on posting to their mailing lists as I’d rather solve the problems I’m having by using ‘best practice’ than by hacking it (meaning it’ll likely break if/when ZF upgrades).
So far I’ve got it reading and writing the configuration tables using Zend_Form as the front end hooking into a back end comprising of a Data Mapper along with a Row Data Gateway to write to the database. The forms fields are being validated nicely too. Feeds can be added, edited and removed now.
Next I’m going to work on the data collection routines. Once those are working, I can revisit the front end and make it pretty.
At this rate I’ll have something worth putting online in the very near future.