About 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, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.

Latest Web Development Features

• AJAX support through JSON – 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