A) Should we trust PayPal in future?
ANS: ABSOLUTELY NO

B) Are they really concerned about our Money?
ANS: ABSOLUTELY NO, After a long period of two weeks we receive an apology letter stating that “We are sorry we goofed up opps!”? and stuff like “Your money just got sacked since this is nothing serious to us we are just doing a drill of playing a game with your hard earned money”?

C) Is RBI responsible for this?
ANS: UNQUESTIONABLY MAYBE, So, Question is why this is happening in India and nowhere else? Question is why we are being kept behind curtains and dark? Question is why Moneybookers and other Payment systems are working but PayPal is not? you just want to exclude the RBI out of this since they are least concerned with us. Everyone failed here! RBI off course you cant expect them to give you a comforting truth so a comforting lie should suffice you! And PayPal Ow man no shit a multinational company failing to inform and notify of an issue of this magnitude. That was an AWESOME combination of pure frustrating, destroying trust & spreading chaos.

D) So what does PayPal tell us now?
ANS: “We are sorry, but your valuable to us so please give us another opportunity to goof up and play some more engaging games with your money” and “We just love to make more profits by giving you a pathetic exchange rate”

D) What now?
ANS: DTA (Don’t Trust Anyone) Get your sleeves up against them and find your own ways to get paid over any other medium that serves better, communicates better and keep them in plenty. If one fails other should work out.

Ive let all my clients know about this issue and advised them (in advance unlike PayPal) to switch over to some other Payment system which is reliable, responsible and does the main thing “ACTION” at PAR. The truth will probably be dead and berried RIP about what happened because the shame and disgust they bring upon themselves is apocalyptic now.

Thanks for taking the time for the reply. I do agree with your points, and the point about a better programmer was said tongue in cheek. I do hope to get my hands dirty with the Zend Framework since it does seem amazing. But as I mentioned, I believe it might be overkill. I did look at Symfony (will look at Lithium now) but Cake seems to fulfill all the requirements that the project has. Any future requirements for the application have been considered too. So Cake for now, itching to get to Zend.

I’d argue with the assertion that an “emphasis on convention … supposedly makes me a ‘better’ programmer.” Convention-based systems make it easy to get started on green-field projects, but very difficult to customize should you need features that are outside their offering. ZF tries to be flexible and allow the developer to choose — but this flexibility comes at the cost of a steeper learning curve.

If you want the simplicity of a conventions-based framework, but flexibility to use components from other systems later, I’d recommend either Symfony or Lithium (which is a fork of Cake’s version 3 branch, and developed by former Cake developers). Both of these frameworks make it fairly easy to integrate third-party libraries and components, and as such let you guide your own project in a more flexible manner. This will allow you to use features from ZF should you determine you need them later down the line.