can anyone help?

If you're open to other options on frameworks, you should take a look at FuelPHP, Yii or Kohana, they each have a lower learning curve and significantly snippier than Zend (Kohana being my #1 choice for reasons I stated here: https://www.nairaland.com/935775/best-php-framework-application-development). That said, there is a great start on Zend here: http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/zend-framework-first-steps/

ok, bt is there any gimmickry on earth to convert a current PHP app. framework to another.@preferably Zend->Yii

no way, the only way i know is re-writing it to Yii, besides the most changes will be your Classes since they almost have similar convention anyway.

framework to another.@preferably Zend->Yii
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pc guru: no way, the only way i know is re-writing it to Yii, besides the most changes will be your Classes since they almost have similar convention anyway.

^^ In addition to this, you might also want to reverse engineer your Zend DB; if you're DB is well-designed, use that as the basis to generate Models through "Gii", write a fat model based on your Zend app's logic, then proceed as @pc_guru described.

now i make Yii my personal Framework Zend is not a RAD tool, instead you spend days figuring simple things out, but because of Job and i need to know it

but to be frank, which one do you prefer for very big projects; if it's Zend, have you found a possible way to tweak its scalability---that's the main issue for me:big website that needs to scale

To be quite frank I prefer 7end to Yii, but to get performance, you have to cache and cache SqL Result, Enable APC, explicitly render your view files, meaning disable ViewRenderer,disable Helpers am not sure if you can do that, might involve hacking the codes,Cache your TableMetaData(I read this from somewhere), make use of Cache.manifest to save re-downloading images, minify your Js code, and you also have to profile your App, turn on Zend_Profiler_Firebug it helps, you see all the stress which why I code in Yii, Zend 2 seems a bit saner, you explicity only load what you need via the Dependency Injector, Zend 1 is complicated, send me a mail so we can discuss more.