Zend Framework

[remi]

I used it the last months, published already some production-ready applications and now it's official released as V1.0: The Zend Framework.

The Zend Framework is a new Framework for PHP developers. It solves frequent needs of web application developers:

• A powerful MVC framework
• A Database access solution that balances ORM with efficiency and
  simplicity
• Some robust authentication/authorization classes and input filtering
• A framework which helps you to develop rich web services client interfaces, including Google Data APIs and StrikeIron
• A Lucene-compatible search engine
• Advanced I18N support
• Many other useful classes
• Well tested with high-quality test suites
• Developed within a Open-source development process with an active community provides continuous review and testing
• The Zend Framework is licensed under the New BSD license

I use the Zend Framework to develop modern, high-quality business applications for my customers.

PHP developers will find more informations at http://framework.zend.com/

Regards,
Remi

[Albacore]

Hi Remi,
Was quite impressed with the video and how easy it was to use the Wiki environment with the google maps etc. My question is how do you interface that editor into your normal one, is it roughly the same as PHP?

[remi]

Hi Albacore,

the demo shows one example of a application, build with Zend Framework. To develop such a application you need two components:

1. the Zend Framework on the server-side and
2. a JavaScript toolkit on the client-side.

The editor himself belongs to the client-side. You'll find such a editor within DojoToolkit or you can use the FCKeditor.

My following picture shows the components for modern web applications:



The Zend Framework helps you to develop the server-side with PHP and a JavaScript Toolkit delivers you new features on the client-side. The picture doesn't show other server-side components like the database or the webserver.

Regards,
Remi