Zend

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Zend Framework (ZF) is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License.
Zend Platform is the only application server for PHP that supports the performance, management, integration and enterprise scalability requirements that solves these issues for organizations using PHP for their business-critical applications. By providing capabilities that streamline development and deployment,

Zend Platform improves the user experience, application responsiveness, integration to your existing infrastructure, and increases application reliability and scalability.

Highlights of zend framework:

Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr.
Zend Frameworkhas been implemented to embody extreme simplicity & productivity, the latest Web 2.0 features, simple corporate-friendly licensing, and a well-tested code base that your enterprise can depend upon.
Extreme Simplicity & Productivity
Zend provides a lightweight, loosely-coupled component library simplified to provide 4/5s of the functionality everyone needs and that lets you customize the other 20% to meet your specific business needs. With the help of zend the learning curve is dramatically lowered – so quick development is ensured.

It is implemented by:

Extensible and
well-tested code base
Flexible architecture
No configuration files
necessary to get started
The Frameworks reduces training costs and quickens time-to-market.

Zend Framework features include:

All components are fully object-oriented PHP 5 and are E_STRICT compliant.
Loosely coupled components and minimal interdependencies.
Extensible MVC implementation supporting layouts and PHP-based templates by default
Support for multiple database systems and vendors like MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Informix Dynamic Server
Email composition and delivery, retrieval via mbox, Maildir, POP3 and IMAP4.
Flexible caching sub-system with support for several backends.
Zend's most commonly used components, include Zend_Controller, Zend_Layout, Zend_Config, Zend_Db, Zend_Db_Table, Zend_Registry,
Extreme Simplicity & Productivity
Latest Web Development Features that conatain support for AJAX through JSON
Search engines, Web Services
High-quality, object-oriented PHP 5 class library

Latest Web Development Features:

AJAX support– Meet the ease-of-use requirements your users have come to expect
Search – A native PHP edition of the industry-standard Lucene search engine
Syndication – The data formats & easy access to them your Web 2.0 applications need
Web Services – Zend Framework aims to be the premier place to consume & publish web services
High-quality, object-oriented PHP 5 class library – attention to best practices like design patterns, unit testing, & loose coupling

Friendly & Simple Licensing, Safe for the Enterprise:

Based on the simple and safe new BSD license, with Zend Framework's License, you rest assured that your code is compliant and protected as you see fit. We also require all contributors to the open source Zend Framework to complete and sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) — which is based on the standard open-source Apache license — protecting your own intellectual property (that is, your added-value) built on Zend Framework.

Fully Tested – Extend Safely and Easily:

Tested thoroughly, enterprise-ready, Zend Framework has been unit-tested from the start, with stringent code coverage requirements to ensure that all code contributed has not only been thoroughly unit-tested, but also remains stable and easy for you to extend, re-test with your extensions, and further maintain.

Zend Framework Components:

Zend_Application, Zend_Application_Bootstrap, Zend_Application_Module, Zend_Application_Resource
Zend_Controller_Front, Zend_Controller_Action, Zend_Controller_Dispatcher, Zend_Controller_Plugin, Zend_Controller_Router

Zend_Form

Zend_Layout, Zend_View, Zend_View_Filter, Zend_View_Helper

The above components make use of the industry standard web application design pattern MVC making code implementation and design easily and clearly separated. No more confusion or needing both skill sets in one person.

Tooling and Rapid Application Development (RAD):

Zend_CodeGenerator
Zend_Reflection
Zend_Tool_Framework, Zend_Tool_Project
Zend_Tool provides tooling support and a command-line client that allows you to generate your project structure and more.

Database

Zend_Db,
Zend_Db_Adapter,
Zend_Db_Profiler,
Zend_Db_Select,
Zend_Db_Table
You can build your application models on whatever database engine you need.

Internationalization and Localization

Zend_Currency
Zend_Locale
Zend_Measure
Zend_Translate

In an increasingly global economy, localizing your application for a particular language and culture is imperative, not an afterthought.
Authentication, Authorization, and Session management

Zend_Acl
Zend_Auth
Zend_Session

Virtually all web applications have some user-specific data that must be customized, and usually, protected from access by other users. Accomplish this quickly and easily with the above features of Zend Framework.

Web and Web Services

Consuming services: Zend_Feed, Zend_Gdata, Zend_Http_Client, Zend_Rest_Client, Zend_Service, Zend_XmlRpc_Client

Exposing services: Zend_Amf_Server, Zend_Json_Server, Zend_Server_Definition, Zend_Server_Reflection, Zend_Rest_Server, Zend_Soap_Server, Zend_XmlRpc_Server Web services are an integral part of Zend Framework and we intend for Zend Framework to be the nexus for and entire eco-system of Web Services and APIs providers. We currently have partnered with Google, Microsoft, and StrikeIron and they have built support for their services into Zend Framework. More are coming soon.

Mail, Formats, and Search

Zend_Json
Zend_Mail,
Zend_Mime
Zend_Pdf
Zend_Search_Lucene

Web 2.0 applications require support for Ajax, PDF generation, e-mail communication, and search, all an increasingly important part of web applications today.

Core Infrastructure

Zend_Cache, Zend_Config, Zend_Console_Getopt, Zend_Debug, Zend_Filter, Zend_Loader, Zend_Loader_Autoloader, Zend_Log, Zend_Memory Zend_Registry, Zend_Validate, Zend_Version

Zend Framework is a broad library of loosely-coupled, yet highly cohesive pieces that support many of the other features you might need for a web application. From logging for tracking and debugging your application in production, caching for high performance, filtering for more secure and safe applications.

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