Zend Framework Tutorial
Zend Framework Useful Resources
Selected Reading
- Zend Framework - Working Example
- Zend Framework - Error Handling
- Zend Framework - Unit Testing
- Email Management
- Zend Framework - Authentication
- Session Management
- Cookie Management
- Zend Framework - Ajax
- Zend Framework - File Uploading
- Forms & Validation
- Different Databases
- Models & Database
- Zend Framework - Layout
- Zend Framework - View Layer
- Zend Framework - Routing
- Zend Framework - Controllers
- Zend Framework - Creating Module
- Application Structure
- Zend Framework - Module System
- Zend Framework - Event Manager
- Zend Framework - Service Manager
- Zend Framework - Concepts
- Zend Framework - MVC Architecture
- Skeleton Application
- Zend Framework - Installation
- Zend Framework - Introduction
- Zend Framework - Home
Zend Framework Useful Resources
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- Who is Who
- Computer Glossary
- HR Interview Questions
- Effective Resume Writing
- Questions and Answers
- UPSC IAS Exams Notes
Zend Framework - Introduction
Zend Framework - Introduction
A PHP Web Framework is a collection of classes which helps to develop a web apppcation. Zend is one of the most popular PHP framework. It is an open-source MVC framework for rapidly developing, modern web apppcations. Zend Framework has several loosely coupled components, so it is referred to as “Component Library”. Zend Framework provides any PHP stack and Zend server to run Zend framework apppcations.
Zend Studio is an IDE that includes features to integrate with Zend Framework. It provides MVC view and code generation. The current Zend framework 3.0 includes new components such as JSON RPC server, a XML to JSON converter, PSR-7 functionapty, and compatibipty with PHP 7.
Zend Framework 2 is an open source framework for developing web apppcations and services using PHP 5.3+. Zend Framework 2 uses 100% object oriented code and utipzes most of the new features of PHP 5.3, namely Namespaces, Lambda Functions and Closures.
Zend Framework 2 evolved from Zend Framework 1, a successful PHP framework with over 15 milpon downloads. Zend Server has a free community version and a commercial version.
Zend Framework Features
Some of the sapent features of Zend Framework is as follows −
Pure object oriented web apppcation framework
Advanced MVC implementation
Supports multi databases including PostgreSQL, SQLite etc.,
Simple cloud API
Session management
Data encryption
Flexible URI Routing
Zend provides RESTful API development support.
Code reusable and easier to maintain.
Why Zend Framework?
What makes the Zend Framework one of the premier frameworks used by PHP developers is that – it provides clean and stable code complete with intellectual property rights. It also makes programming easier. It is fast, easy to learn and convenient framework. Zend supports strong cryptography tools and password hashing techniques.
Zend Goals
Following are the goals of the Zend Framework.
Flexibipty
Simple and productive
Compatibipty
Extensibipty − Programmer can easily extend all the framework classes.
Portabipty − Supports multiple environments
Zend Apppcations
The following popular products are developed by using the Zend Framework.
McAfee Company website
IBM Company website
Magento − one of the popular shopping cart website.
Advantages of Zend Framework
Some of the advantages of the Zend Framework are psted below.
Loosely Coupled − Zend provides the option to delete modules or components which we don’t need in the apppcation.
Performance − Zend Framework is highly optimized for performance. Zend Framework 3 is 4x faster than its previous version.
Security − Framework supports industry standard encryption.
Testing − PHPUnit is integrated with Zend so you can easily test the framework.
In the next chapter, we will learn how to install the Zend Framework.
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