Zend Framework

Zend Framework is a simple, straightforward, open-source object-oriented software framework for PHP 5 designed to eliminate the tedious details of coding and let you focus on the big picture. This framework provides functionality for the 80% of the application code that is common across many applications, so you can focus on customizing the other 20% of your applications to satisfy your business requirements.

One of its strengths is the highly modular Model-View-Controller (MVC) design, making your code more reusable and easier to maintain.

Zend Framework was the winner of the Infoworld Bossie Award for 2010.

Features include:

• Use-at-will architecture with loosely coupled components and minimal interdependencies
• Extensible MVC implementation supporting layouts and PHP-based templates by default
• ORM - Table and row data gateway and Doctrine 2.0 for Zend Framework 2.0
• Support for multiple database systems and vendors, including MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Informix Dynamic Server
• Email composition and delivery, retrieval via mbox, Maildir, POP3 and IMAP4
• ACL-based security frameworks
• Template frameworks
• Flexible caching sub-system with support for many types of backends, such as memory or a file system
• Form validation frameworks
• All components are fully object-oriented PHP 5 and are E_STRICT compliant
• Components:
• Zend_Acl - provides lightweight and flexible access control list (ACL) functionality and privileges management
• Zend_Auth - provides an API for authentication and includes concrete authentication adapters for common use case scenarios
• Zend_Cache - provides a flexible approach toward caching data, including tagging, manipulating, iterating, and removing subsets
• Zend_Console_Getopt - command-line PHP applications benefit from this convenient object-oriented interface for declaring, parsing, and reporting command-line arguments and options
• Zend_Controller and Zend_View - provide the infrastructure for a Model-View-Controller website
• Zend_Date - offers a detailed, but simple API for manipulating dates and times
• Zend_Db - a lightweight database access layer, providing an interface to PDO and other database extensions in PHP
• Zend_Db_Table - a lightweight solution for object-oriented programming with databases
• Zend_Feed - provides a very simple way to work with live syndicated feeds
• Zend_Filter / Zend_Validate
• Zend_Filter_Input - a configurable solution for declaring and enforcing filtering and validation rules
• Zend Google Data Client - provide read/write access to services hosted at google.com, for example, Spreadsheets, Calendar, Blogger, and CodeSearch
• Zend_Http_Client - provides a client for the HTTP protocol, without requiring any PHP extensions
• Zend_Json - easily convert PHP structures into JSON and vice versa for use in AJAX-enabled applications
• Zend_Loader - load files, classes, and resources dynamically in your PHP application
• Zend_Locale
• Zend_Log - log data to the console, flat files, or a database
• Zend_Mail and Zend_Mime - creates email messages and sends them
• Zend_Measure - convert measurements into different units of the same type
• Zend_Memory - offers an API for managing data in a limited memory mode
• Zend_Pdf - supports Adobe PDF file format
• Zend_Registry - provides an object-oriented storage mechanism for application-global data
• Zend_Rest_Client / Zend_Rest_Server - provides a simple, object oriented interface for consuming and providing XML-based REST web services
• Zend_Search_Lucene - a port of the Apache Lucene Java search engine
• Zend_Service: Akismet, Amazon, Audioscrobbler, Delicious, Flickr, Simpy, StrikeIron and Yahoo!
• Zend_Session - helps manage and preserve session data across multiple page requests by the same client
• Zend_Translate - provides the Zend Framework with message translation functionality
• Zend_Uri - a component that aids in manipulating and validating Uniform Resource Identifiers
• Zend_XmlRpc - communicate with and create XML-RPC services from PHP
• Internationalization support

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