[TYPO3-dev] Better use pibase while everyone use extbase?

[Christian Futterlieb]

Hi Franz

> Do you have any experience with this solution? How can you integrate a
> third party framework (e.g. Symfony) with TYPO3?

For my company I wrote an integration of ZendFramework (in the days of
ZF1) as extension for TYPO3 4.5 and built some extensions upon it.

I wanted to keep it as simple/lightweight as possible, so I decided to
leave the responsibility for stuff like addPItoST43/addPlugin by the
extension. The 'good-old' main function (userFunction of the USER
cObject) then acted as bootstraper which started the ZF application.

With simplicity in mind I wrote only a very small integration layer
which covered only the really needed things like routing, autoloading, a
db adapter for TYPO3_db, a translation adapter etc.

Of course I had to write the whole data-modelling myself in the
'built-upon' extensions.

I liked very much that only the Application/MVC parts of ZF had to be
used basically, even though I used some other components as well. And so
I've got some really good performing extensions.

Hopefully I'll find the time to give it a try with ZF2 on TYPO3 6.2 :-)

Regards, Christian