Zend Framework – PHP packages ready for PHP 7

Last Updated on July 13, 2021

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.

Website: framework.zend.com
Support: Documentation
Developer: Zend Technologies
License: New BSD License

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