Speed issues are normal when getting started, I forget what usually causes it, but it is fixed pretty easily, a newer release will probably fix it out of the box.

As for being too early, you might want some more exposure to OOP. The power with ZF comes from extending and using only what you need, so it relies heavily on OOP methodology, however experimenting and learning ZF while you learn OOP is probably the best route, because learning any framework has a steep curve, and all the practice you get is well spent.

First, thanks for this Zend layout example. I m new to zend. Its very difficult for me to understand very thing. I have only built a app http://www.mbstu.ac.bd/ using procedural PHP. I m using OOP features for about a month or so. I m interested in using zend for my future projects.

Do you think this being early to use zendF in my development carrier.

And it seems to me sites using ZF takes longer to load.In Bangladesh we have poor internet connectivity. So that’s a problem for us.

And lastly, whats the difference between siteTamplate using dispatchLoopStartup() preDispatch()…..
and
Layout>siteTamplate

And which one to use?