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Zend Server Reference Manual
Zend Framework
Zend Framework is a high quality, open source framework for developing Web applications and
Web services with PHP.
Built in the true PHP spirit, the Zend Framework delivers ease-of-use and powerful functionality. It
provides solutions for building modern, robust and secure websites.
Zend Framework Resources
All the developer resources can be found at: http://framework.zend.com/
Why Zend Framework
(Taken from: http://framework.zend.com/whyzf/overview)
Extending the art and spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity: Object-oriented best
practices, corporate friendly licensing and a rigorously tested agile code base. Zend Framework
is focused on building more secure, reliable and modern Web 2.0 applications and Web services,
and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, and
Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.
Expanding on these core themes, we have implemented Zend Framework to embody extreme
simplicity and productivity, the latest Web 2.0 features, simple corporate-friendly licensing and an
agile, well-tested code base that your enterprise can depend upon.
Extreme Simplicity & Productivity
We designed Zend Framework with simplicity in mind. To provide 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. By focusing on the most
commonly needed functionality, we retain the simplified spirit of PHP programming, while
dramatically lowering the learning curve - and your training costs – so developers get up-to-speed
quickly. We do this with:
Extensible and welltested code base
No configuration
Flexible architecture
files necessary to
get going
Frameworks and best practices mean reduced training costs and quicker time-to-market –
important factors in adoption decisions. Built so you can pick and choose just the pieces you
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