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A few days ago I understood the right usage of the framework. Frankly speaking, it does not help with creating Web forms—it has no high-level complex components like TDataGrid in PRADO or even Repeater in ASP.NET. And what I understood is that it is not Zend Framework’s business how developers are creating their forms and here is a reason for this: modern pages are created with a lot of JavaScript and, I believe, are created with client-side components, not server-side. For example, Dojo toolkit or Backbase framework has a lot of JavaScript components for creating powerful pages. Basic form controls, complex components like DataGrid are ready to use and Zend Framework only should help with providing them with data and performing various operations with a controller. And now it has enough to serve “rich clients” requests.

So I tried this new way and created a simple form with the Dojo and Zend Framework. The result is just excellent for me and I wish Dojo toolkit growing and hope that it will acquire a few more complex components, like DataGrid with paging and sorting. And here is a short review of the creation.

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