[VuFind-Tech] Zend Code path

[Joe A. <jo...@bo...>]

I imagine all this is internalized if you're a Zend2 expert, but I have to
say, after 6 months working on VuFind code (my first exposure to Zend), I
still am at a loss to know what pieces fit where for a
*full*request/response cycle. I am experienced with other web
frameworks and I
get the routing, action finding and templates.  What I don't get are the
other implicit Zend namespace expectations, VuFind's many levels of
inheritance and dynamic plugin overriding.

Is it possible to get a thoroughly documented trace of methods called in a
basic Solr search and the files that provide those methods?  (I would love
for it to be a diagram, but I would happily consume just a list.)

I realize that is a non-trivial request, so barring that, what resources
have helped existing devs bone up on Zend 2 conventions?  I find the
official Zend docs are backwards and lacking (for the API) or unhelpfully
include every last Zend component (the Reference guide).

--joe