Wheres the model?
Unlike the view and the controller components, the model component can vary dramatically in responsibilities and data store from one MVC application to the next. The ZF community has not defined a model interface, class, or other formalism simply because we wanted to avoid introducing limitations without significant added value. With the introduction of Zend_Form in ZF 1.5, there is potential added value in form-model interoperability. We will evaluate proposals for models which facilitate this interoperability while supporting all data backends for future inclusion in the standard library.