It would be nice, if Zend could provide us with more of those hints. Less people would use the framework in a wrong way without knowing about it, I think.

Without these little information it’s quite easy to do something wrong (aside from general OO purposes).

Perhaps you should mark your WRONG code as being WRONG, otherwise people copy&paste the WRONG examples without reading the complete article.

Now i see. Interesting approach.

Well models can care about forms (http://weierophinney.net/matthew/archives/200-Using-Zend_Form-in-Your-Models.html) in some cases that can have sense, for filtering, for validation, I like to do it explicitly in controller. But sometimes it’s handy to pass entire form (ex search form) and get values with $form->getValue(‘q’) rather then $param['q'] if you pass values.

When we are there, i’m strugling to extend Zend_Db_Table_Row_Abstract right way, maybe you have some suggestions, please take a look at http://n4.nabble.com/Extending-Zend-Db-Table-Row-Abstract-td1559336.html#a1559336.

$form = new Form();

if ($this->_request->isPost()) {

if ($form->isValid($this->_request->getPost())
{
$model = new Model($this->_request->getPost());
$model->save();
}
else
{
$form->populate($this->_request->getPost());
}
}

You don’t need to populate since isValid already populates the form.
Also $model = new Model($this->_request->getPost()) should be replaced with $form->getValues() or you can pass Zend_Form object to your model.

Thanks for nice post ;)